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Compare negative and positive concepts of liberty.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • Equality and Liberty

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Isaiah Berlin's Oxford inaugural lecture Two Concepts of Liberty (1958; reprinted in Four Essays on Liberty, 1969) fixed the terms. Negative liberty is the area in which one is "left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons"; positive liberty springs from "the wish on the…

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