Two concepts of liberty
by Isaiah Berlin · first published 1958
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«Dos conceptos de libertad» es una defensa del pluralismo y de la libertad individual. La obra del filósofo Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) es una de las más firmes defensas del pluralismo occidental. Su famoso ensayo 'Dos conceptos de libertad' ofrece una introducción accesible a su pensamiento. El incisivo análisis de Berlin sobre el concepto de libertad sigue determinando nuestro pensamiento sociopolítico actual.
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The positive/negative rights thing is basically the libertarians adopting a simplified and less-nuanced reading of Isaiah Berlin's famous essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty" http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/twoconcepts.pd... It's better to go to the originals on things like this then to read what they've become in the political folk mythology on the internets.
on “EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression” ↗I would also recommend Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/A...
on “Is Connectivity A Human Right?” ↗…and negative liberty” to be specific and useful? Personally, I think it’s incredibly insightful yet fundamentally very simple, which is the mark of a good thinker IMO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
on “In Memory of Isaiah Berlin” ↗…men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence. Slavery cannot tolerate free speech [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhQhdA-zss A primer in the two concepts of liberty. [2] https://www.newsweek.com/anti-semitism-derail-black-lives-ma... [3] https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/28/you-cant-defeat-rac... [4] https://lawliberty.org/frederick-douglass-plea-for-freedom-o...…
on “YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation” ↗…supports the NAP[1], as well as defending the necessity of an impartial law system. It just defends negative rights, instead of positives ones, not a lack of rights and obligations. See Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty[2]. EDIT to your EDIT: in Hobbes' state of nature, everyone has the right do to whatever one thinks is necessary for one's own preservation (including, say, killing others). For Rand, one has the right…
on “Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses” ↗…something, like education or similar institutions. The freedom of a publisher to control what happens to sold books isn't at all part of negative freedom (freedom from). I'm basing my understanding on the Two Concepts of Liberty by Isaiah Berlin.
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay” ↗Isaiah Berlin wrote about the two concepts of liberty[0] in 1958 and the constitution of the US is based on negative liberty, so it goes back a bit further than the 90s. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
on “Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water” ↗Well, it's not my definition. It's Isaiah Berlin's and was the foundation of US policy from 1960 to about 2000. A bit less lately. Do you want to know more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
on “Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries” ↗"Freedom" has two different meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
on “New York’s Shadow Transit” ↗…examples listed on that page are much, much more nuanced than they appear at face value including subsequent cases that clarified the meaning of those decisions. If we stay on topic with the relation of the two concepts of liberty to the decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP to no longer publish 6 books because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." and the subsequent decision by Ebay, Amazon, et al. to prevent…
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay” ↗cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
on “Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'” ↗