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"Negative liberty" and "positive liberty" are at least as much a matter of phrasing as they are anything real. For instance, do I have the positive liberty to
by gloob 16y ago
"Negative liberty" and "positive liberty" are at least as much a matter of phrasing as they are anything real.
For instance, do I have the positive liberty to compel others not to point loaded firearms at me? Do government officials have the negative liberty to not be compelled to hold elections if they don't want to?
- davidmathers 16y agoI agree that those concepts don't really hold up to philosophical scrutiny, but they're useful for political categories. Libertarians, social democrats, and conservatives all mean something real when they say "liberty" and they are 3 different meanings.