Concept

Positive liberty

Overview

Capacity to act on one's own free will without internal constraint

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Positive liberty

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Isaiah Berlin
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Related ideas

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Isaiah Berlin
• Open University
• Analytic philosophy
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Racism
• Sexism
• Charles Taylor (philosopher)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Erich Fromm
• Autocracy
• General will
• Structure and agency
• Two Concepts of Liberty

Opposing perspectives

• Negative liberty

Place in the tradition

Part of Anarchism.

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