PHILOS 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ronald Dworkin, Negative Liberty
6 Apr 2016
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Guiding question: taylor in defence of positive freedom. Freedom is understood as an opportunity concept . Freedom to realize one"s true self and achieve one"s life long goals. To achieve this we must act to our higher nature (rationality) and suppress our lower nature (impulses) Berlin - didn"t like this form of freedom as it could be seen as something wider than the individual. If people were rational they would want democracy. Problem with postie freedom is that it is almost imposed on the person. Religion has been abolished in albania whereas in britain it hasn"t. But there are far fewer traffic lights in albania vs britain. In sheer quantity british people are restrained more than the religious ban on the. The benefit of negative liberty is that we didn"t have to worry about what is good. Human"s are not only subjects of first order desires but also second order desires (desires about desires)
