Two Concepts of Liberty

Name: Two Concepts of Liberty
Author: Isaiah Berlin

by Isaiah Berlin

Influential essay distinguishing negative freedom from positive self-realization

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Isaiah Berlin

British philosopher and historian of ideas whose essay 'Two Concepts of Liberty' distinguished negative liberty (freedom from interference) from positive liberty (freedom to self-govern) in the most influential essay in 20th-century political philosophy. His studies of Russian thinkers and Romantic nationalism are also major works.

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