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  2. Summary. Liberty refers to: 1: the quality or state of being free: a: the power to do as one pleases. b: freedom from physical restraint. c: freedom from arbitrary or despotic (see DESPOT sense 1) control. d: the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges. e: the power of choice [5]

    • Isaiah Berlin
    • 1958
  3. Berlin argues that political theory is a branch of moral philosophy that explores the question of obedience and coercion. He distinguishes between negative liberty, which is the absence of interference, and positive liberty, which is the pursuit of a goal.

  4. Nov 11, 2023 · Learn how the 20th-century philosopher distinguished between negative and positive liberty, and why he argued that positive liberty can lead to tyranny. Negative liberty is freedom from interference by others, while positive liberty is freedom to pursue one's true self or rational goals.

    • Two Concepts of Liberty1
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  5. Feb 27, 2003 · We began with a simple distinction between two concepts of liberty, and have progressed from this to the recognition that liberty might be defined in any number of ways, depending on how one interprets the three variables of agent, constraints, and purposes.

  6. Explore the origins, development and interpretation of Berlin's influential argument for pluralist liberalism in his 1958 lecture and its earlier drafts. Compare the different versions of the text, listen to his recorded dictation and watch his interview on freedom.

  7. Oct 26, 2004 · Two Concepts of Liberty, and Berlin’s liberalism, are therefore based not on championing negative liberty against positive liberty, but on advocating individualism, empiricism and pluralism against collectivism, holism, metaphysical rationalism (cf. note 14a) and monism.

  8. Aug 27, 2020 · An introduction and overview of the British/Latvian philosopher, Isaiah Berlin's 1958 classic lecture on Two Concepts of Liberty.Berlin thought that where ph...

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