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Negative and Positive Liberty
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Berlin's distinction: negative liberty is freedom from interference; positive liberty is freedom to direct your own life—possessing the means and mastery to act.
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Nobody blocks the penniless man's door; every path from it is closed. Negatively free, positively not.
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Berlin warned that positive liberty invites forcing people to be free—a warning itself much disputed.