Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama
There are two possible definitions that Isaiah Berlin offered in his ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, that of positive and negative liberty.
Essentially, negative liberty is what we think of when we hear the word freedom. It pertains to the kind of liberty wherein we are not impeded by external forces like the law.
On the other hand, positive liberty is having the capacity to exercise your autonomy and do what you seek to accomplish or pursue. But in the course of choosing to do what you want, there are other variables that might influence your freedom.
The matter of self-mastery crosses over into the topics of autonomy and the self. The modern version of this idea links the self to higher-order desires: desires about desires, such as…
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