
Third Concept of Liberty
Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin''s famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two. In Fleischacker''s view, Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on...
Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin''s famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two. In Fleischacker''s view, Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on...