In Isaiah Berlin’s famous essay “Two Concepts of Liberty,” he sets out his two conditions of negative and positive liberty. In short, negative liberty involves freedom from as a response to the question “what is the area within which the subject—a person or group of persons—is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons?”
The twelfth annual Isaiah Berlin Day will take place at the National Library of Latvia in Riga on June 17th, 2022, honoring the work and thought of the Rīga-born British political philosopher.