\'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one\'s life than when one had begun.\' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to Philosophy in favour of the history of ideas.
In The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Johnny Lyons shows that Berlin\'s approach to intellectual history amounted to the pursuit of Philosophy by other means, creating a more original and fruitful en. \'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one\'s life than when one had begun.\' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to Philosophy in favour of the history of ideas
