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What is the difference between the negative and positive conception of liberty?

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Answered by nikitasingh79
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Liberty understood in two different ways- negative and positive aspects of Liberty. The negative aspects of Liberty means absolute freedom of individual. Absence of the restraints in the meaning of negative Liberty. But true Liberty does not mean the absence of restrictions. True Liberty exist only when every citizen enjoys the opportunity for self realization and the State maintains those rights and opportunities which help the citizens to develop all that is best in them.The positive aspect of liberty includes the right of the man to do or enjoy something that is worth enjoying. In brief ,it means the enjoyment of certain important rights such as freedom of life, freedom of thought and freedom of worship , etc.

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Answered by Anonymous
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Liberty, effectively, is another word for ‘freedom’. It means the extent to which one can freely exist as an individual without any limitations in the form of laws and regulations.

Positive liberty can be defined as the ability of an individual to act the way they want to - being completely free in the decisions they make and the actions they take. Negative liberty, on the contrary, whilst still allows freedom, restricts the extent to which one can achieve it. In negative liberty, an individual can be as free as they will, but as long as their freedom is not something they are not allowed to do. For example, you may have the freedom to own a weapon, but you do not have the freedom to use it at your will, since there are laws in place for that.

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