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This is test blog for 2Guns, who hasn't really got a clue about blogging but is learning the hard way. So there may be a lot of utter rubbish here for the foreseeable future! How many bloody words does this box allow? I'm going to keep writing to see what it'll allow or until I get bored. Right, I'm now bored!
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty
Positive and Negative Liberty
Negative liberty is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense. Positive liberty is the possibility of acting - or the fact of acting - in such a way as to take control of one's life and realize one's fundamental purposes. While negative liberty is usually attributed to individual agents, positive liberty is sometimes attributed to collectivities, or to individuals considered primarily as members of given collectivities. The idea of distinguishing between a negative and a positive sense of the term ‘liberty’ goes back at least to Kant, but was first examined and defended in depth by Isaiah Berlin in the 1950s and ‘60s. Discussions about the distinction normally take place in the context of political and social philosophy. They are distinct from, though sometimes related to, philosophical discussions about free will. Discussions about the nature of positive liberty often overlap, however, with discussions about the nature of personal autonomy.
Positive and Negative Liberty
Negative liberty is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense. Positive liberty is the possibility of acting - or the fact of acting - in such a way as to take control of one's life and realize one's fundamental purposes. While negative liberty is usually attributed to individual agents, positive liberty is sometimes attributed to collectivities, or to individuals considered primarily as members of given collectivities. The idea of distinguishing between a negative and a positive sense of the term ‘liberty’ goes back at least to Kant, but was first examined and defended in depth by Isaiah Berlin in the 1950s and ‘60s. Discussions about the distinction normally take place in the context of political and social philosophy. They are distinct from, though sometimes related to, philosophical discussions about free will. Discussions about the nature of positive liberty often overlap, however, with discussions about the nature of personal autonomy.
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