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| − | {{DES | des = Liberty is a glittering generality of libertarian propaganda. Libertarians do not adequately define it, and often think the mistaken ideas of "positive" and "negative" liberty resolve problems. | show=}} | + | {{DES | des = Liberty (also known as [[freedom]]) is a [[Fallacies_Of_Philosophy#Glittering_Generalities_Of_Propaganda|glittering generality]] of libertarian propaganda. Libertarians do not adequately define it, and often think the mistaken ideas of "positive" and "negative" liberty resolve problems. Liberty can be correctly understood as a triadic relation. | show=}} |
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| + | [[Isaiah Berlin]]'s [[Two Concepts of Liberty]] supposedly clarified thinking about liberty, but in actuality it takes very careful reading to spot all the assumptions he slides in at the beginning. | ||
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| + | First he talks about "political senses of freedom or liberty": this implies a division into political and other types of liberty. By political liberty, he means socially constructed liberty. If you are trapped in a pit because somebody placed you there, you have been interfered with by a person, and your political liberty has been infringed. If you fell in by yourself, you still have an infringement of your liberty, but it is not political. | ||
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| + | Political liberty he looks at in two senses, positive and negative, and he observes "the answers to them may overlap". He does not rule out other senses of political liberty, and indeed the idea of [[Freedom as a Triadic Relation]] clearly allows others. | ||
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| + | The Euler (Venn) diagram to the right illustrates Berlin's implied classification of liberty. A better classification might require a much more complex diagram that would subsume this one. | ||
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| + | Libertarian ideology tends to preoccupy itself only with the negative region the this diagram, and oppose or ignore almost all other ideas of liberty. | ||
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