TWO CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY

'''Two Concepts of Liberty''' was the inaugural lecture delivered by Isaiah Berlin before the University of Oxford on October 31, 1958. It was subsequently published as a 57-page pamphlet by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. It also appears in the collection of Berlin's papers entitled ''Four Essays on Liberty'' (1969) and was more recently reissued in a collection entitled simply ''Liberty'' (2002).
Berlin distinguished between two forms or concepts of liberty - negative liberty and positive liberty - and argued that the latter concept has often been used to cover up abuse - leading to the curtailment of people's negative liberties "for their own good".

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★ Positive and negative rights

External links

★ The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library

★ TLDOC: Berlin's two concepts of liberty

★ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Positive and Negative Liberty