PHL271H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Traffic Light, Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty
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Berlin views positive liberty with suspicion, it"s dangerous based laws based on this. Taylor positive freedom only kind of freedom that should be valued. What is negative liberty: when we use this, were answering the question that what should be left by themselves without interference within another. In lack of negative when picking an apple. If because the gov"t is preventing me, then it"s an interference with my negative liberty. If you can"t reach it, there"s no interference. The state should protect it, within limits: he thinks the government should protect this. When someone"s negative liberty is sacrificed, there is a loss: sometimes we need to take away other people"s negative liberty in order to see an opportunity of background use of negative freedom. Does not make sense that happiness/culture/health/liberty can be put in a scale. What is positive liberty: we"re answering a different question when we"re answering negative liberty.
