PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill, Reference Question, Positive Liberty
15 Sep 2014
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Free on this if we are free from the government to do whatever we want to do on our own. If i want to pick an apple from a tree and. I can"t because there is a prohibition then i can petition to the government that i have an interference in my negative liberty. He has in mind the set like the charter of rights (religion, expression, association, security of the person: there are limits though because. 2)negative liberty matters, but there are other things that matter also. For example other things we value are equality, happiness, culture. You can legitimately sacrifice negative liberty for the increase in these other valuable goals. This enables ppl to enjoy their negative liberty. We need to be clear about the fact that that is what we are doing so the loss to this gorups is not ignored.
