Two Concepts Of Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
The essay distinguishes two kinds of liberty: negative liberty, understood as freedom from interference by others, and positive liberty, understood as the capacity to be one’s own master or to realize one’s true self; it argues that the two can come into tension and that invoking positive liberty has been used to justify coercion by claiming to promote people’s real interests. The piece warns that sacrifices of negative freedom in the name of some higher collective or authentic self risk authoritarianism and defends the importance of protecting individual liberty and acknowledging value pluralism to guard against oppressive political projects.
- Published
- 1958
- Nationality
- British
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- Original Language
- English
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