ABSTRACT: Isaiah Berlin made the distinction between negative liberty and positive liberty. Since then, prominent contemporary philosophers including Charles Taylor and Martha Nussbaum have declared negative liberty insufficient or incoherent. This is a critique of those declarations, which have been unduly accepted to a large extent. The critique primarily focuses on Taylor, who made the most direct and complete argument against negative liberty. His argument is shown to be ineffective. And further, his conception of positive liberty is shown to be incoherent.
Keywords: negative liberty, positive liberty, isaiah berlin, martha nussbaum, charles taylor
Stuart Doyle (stuartdoyle1@gmail.com) is in the US Marine Corps and holds a M.S. degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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