PHIL 320A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty
30 Aug 2018
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The defense of liberty consists in the negative goal of warding off interference. 3. liberty in this sense is pricing ally concerned with the area of control, not its source leaving too much room for liberty could create inequality and mistreatments. No necessary connection between liberty and democratic rule. Positive liberty becomes clear when we try to answer what am i free to do or be? . Proponents of negative liberty believe positive liberty is a sidguiee for brutal tyranny. Positive liberty the wish on the part of the individual to be his own master. Our reasons as human beings that distinguish us from the rest of the world. Conscious of ourselves as thinking, willing, active beings. Positive and negative liberty may come into direct conflict with one another. Free choice of true self is identical to freedom. People claim coercion is fine as long as it is for the good of the other person.
