Liberty: Positive or Negative?——A Study on Fromm's and Berlin's Different Views of Liberty

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In his book of Four Essays on Liberty, Isaiah Berlin proposed two concepts of liberty, holding that the positive freedom put forward by Erich Fromm would lead to the opposite of freedom.Berlin's such a view is still open to discussion.Fromm's positive freedom in radical humanitarianism lays a stress upon man's self-fulfillment while negative freedom is regarded as a requisite condition to the realization of positive freedom.Moreover, his analysis of escaping from freedom proves wrong Berlin's belief that negative liberty could not be transformed into its reversal.

Key words: positive liberty, negative liberty, self-fulfillment, escape from freedom

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Wen-qing KONG. Liberty: Positive or Negative?——A Study on Fromm's and Berlin's Different Views of Liberty[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2006, 38(1): 28-33.

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