What is “Negative Liberty” ? : An Analysis of Isaiah Berlin
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Isaiah Berlin, Negative Liberty, Positive LibertyAbstract
This paper aims to explain Isaiah Berlin’s concept of negative liberty. That is, this study applied documentary research and political philosophy method conducted through a textual analysis and interpretation, the result shows that, negative liberty means freedom or absence of constraint from external impediments or controls. That is, when other individuals, societies and states do not interfere with us, negative liberty concerns itself with the space within which individuals are free to act without being coerced by others, negative liberty presupposes that we not only choose values and ways of life, but that we are also the active makers and shapers of these values and ways of life.
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