Two Concepts of Liberty

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Two Concepts of Liberty was the inaugural lecture delivered by Isaiah Berlin before the University of Oxford on October 31, 1958. It was subsequently published as a 57-page pamphlet by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. It also appears in the collection of Berlin's papers entitled Four Essays on Liberty (1969) and was more recently reissued in a collection entitled simply Liberty (2002).

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

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