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MA Political Science Negative Liberty — practice questions

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Negative liberty means:

  1. self-mastery
  2. absence of external constraints
  3. collective freedom
  4. social welfare
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Correct answer: B. absence of external constraints

1. Negative liberty = freedom from interference. 2. Hobbes, Bentham, Berlin championed this conception. 3. Contrasts with positive liberty (Rousseau, Hegel). __Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch 2 §2.4 — negative and positive liberty__

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