PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: On Liberty, Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty
5 May 2017
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If liberty is only negatively conceived, then a society that had quantitatively fewer constraining factors would be more liberal than a society having more. So, e. g. , if albanian socialism restricts the freedom of religion, but had far fewer traffic laws than, e. g. great britain, the latter would, from a crudely negative conception, be less free. The embarrassment for the crude negative theory by itself it does not make qualitative discriminations about what liberties are more significant than others. We gave up participation and democratic power. Negative conception of liberty, freedom - free to do something as no one else is curtailing that activity. Freedom means becoming fully human and you"re not human if you do whatever you want. The freedom of association/speech ranks higher than, for example, the freedom to pick up a coin from the ground. Strong evaluation: distinguishing between first and second-order desires. First-order desire: having a desire, feeling of a want the fact of desire.
