Four Essays on Liberty

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Four Essays on Liberty is a collection of political philosophy essays by Isaiah Berlin that explores concepts of freedom, particularly his influential distinction between negative and positive liberty.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
essay collection
author Isaiah Berlin
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre philosophy
political philosophy
hasKeyConcept coercion and constraint
conflict of values
critique of historical determinism
critique of monism in ethics
critique of totalitarianism
freedom as non-interference
freedom as self-mastery
historicism and inevitability
individual autonomy
individual vs collective goals
liberal tolerance
liberty and authority
limits of political authority
moral and political responsibility
pluralism of values
role of ideas in politics
hasPart Historical Inevitability
John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life
Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
Two Concepts of Liberty
influenced contemporary liberal political theory
debates on freedom and coercion
theory of value pluralism
influencedBy Immanuel Kant
John Stuart Mill
Russian intellectual history
language English
mainSubject liberalism
liberty
negative liberty
political theory
positive liberty
value pluralism
notableFor distinction between negative and positive liberty
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
liberalism
publicationPeriod 20th century
publisher Oxford University Press

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