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Negative liberty, in Isaiah Berlin's framework, means:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Negative liberty, in Isaiah Berlin's framework, means:

  1. freedom from material need
  2. self-mastery and rational autonomy
  3. collective freedom of a nation
  4. absence of external constraints on action
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Correct answer: D. absence of external constraints on action

1. Berlin distinguishes negative from positive liberty in his 1958 essay. 2. Negative liberty = freedom FROM interference (Hobbes, Bentham, Mill). 3. Positive liberty = freedom TO self-realisation (Rousseau, Hegel, Marx). __Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch 2 — negative and positive freedom__

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