Review the Power Point Natural Law from Assignment 1. (Note: Sea Gulls v. Canadian Geese)
Review the notes above on Negative and Positive Liberty.
Review the following articles:
Two Concepts of Liberty by Isaiah Berlin http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf. (Isaiah Berlin is thought by many to be the dominant scholar of his generation)
And in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Positive and Negative Liberty” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/
Use the above list of government restrictions on individual liberty to assess how you perceive liberty.
Write a One-page Response discussing your position on Positive v. Negative Liberty – Does it matter? Include in your response your thoughts on liberty as it defines a particular view of what is permissible for the state to do, and in establishing what the state exists to doin the name of governing.
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