Political Science · Political Theory
Who among the following analyses liberty as a triadic relationship of the form, X is free from Y to do or become (or not to do or become) Z?
AGerald MacCallum ✓ Correct
BMilton Friedman
CRobert Nozick
DIsaiah Berlin
Correct answer: (A) Gerald MacCallum — Gerald MacCallum analysed liberty as a single triadic relationship, so the answer is Gerald MacCallum.
Explanation
★Gerald MacCallum analysed liberty as a single triadic relationship, so the answer is Gerald MacCallum.
★In 1967 he argued there is no real split between two separate concepts of liberty.
★Every claim about freedom, he said, links three things in one formula.
★These are an agent X, the constraints Y he is free from, and the action or goal Z he is free to pursue.
★Negative and positive liberty, on this view, merely stress different parts of the same relation.
★Berlin, by contrast, had insisted on two distinct concepts, negative and positive liberty.
★Friedman and Nozick defended market freedom but did not give this unifying triadic formula.
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