[POLS 351] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 83 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 351
• Professor: Margaret R Moore

Document Summary

Negative liberty: freedom from" a person is free to the degree to which no man or body of men interferes with his activity. Positive liberty freedom to" person is free to the extent that he is his own master, whose life and decisions depend upon himself and not upon external forces of any kind. Great deal of disagreement about the good, there is a pluralism of the good. When humans reflect in a self-conscious good, pluralism about the good. Scarcity if we all want one thing, there will be conflict. Another thing that we disagree on is the good. Discourse on the ends of life, what societies should value, and society is organized. Throughout his lecture, he not only distinguishes between negative and positive liberty, but says one kind is dangerous. There had previously been no cluster of definition of freedom. Thought was that freedom is one of those concepts regarded as being good.