PHL271H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thomas Hobbes, Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
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Topic 1: do not write about the harm principle. Isaiah berlin suggests that we need to be weary of the idea of positive liberty. He gives us arguments agains the states use of positive liberty to justify its policy. We are free in this sense, so long as we are not prevented from doing (by whomever) what we would otherwise be able to do. If i want my kids to go to a school but they can"t. The government mandates that the school is outside my district (restriction) My kids did not score high enough on an exam to be able to get in (not restricted) Berlin notes that many liberal thinkers have suggested that we have to protect. Thursday, october 29, 2015 negative liberty, with basic limitations. Basic set of liberties state should protect: e. g. freedom or religion, expression, association.
