Political Science · Political Theory
Isaiah Berlin's distinction between Positive Liberty and Negative Liberty is given in:
AEssays on Liberty
BTwo Essays on Liberty
CThree Essays on Liberty
DFour Essays on Liberty ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Four Essays on Liberty — Berlin's distinction appears in Four Essays on Liberty, so the answer is Four Essays on Liberty.
Explanation
★Berlin's distinction appears in Four Essays on Liberty, so the answer is Four Essays on Liberty.
★It was published in 1969 and includes his famous essay Two Concepts of Liberty.
★That essay, first delivered as a lecture in 1958, draws the negative and positive distinction.
★Negative liberty is freedom from interference, the absence of external constraint.
★Positive liberty is self-mastery, the freedom to be one's own master and realise oneself.
★Berlin warned that positive liberty can be twisted to justify coercion in the name of the real self.
★The other titles given are not the actual collection in which this appears.
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