Two Concepts of Liberty

Two Concepts of Liberty was the inaugural lecturedelivered by Isaiah Berlinbefore the University of Oxfordon October 31, 1958. It was subsequently published as a 57 page volume by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. It also appears in the collection of Berlin's writing entitled Four Essays on Liberty.

Berlin distinguished between two forms or conceptsof liberty - negative libertyand positive liberty- and argued the latter is politically dangerous because it tempts rulers to curtail people's negative liberties "for their own good."

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