Abstract
Building on the preceding chapters, this chapter explicates Berlin’s understanding of liberty, and the political and intellectual purposes which his account aimed to serve. The understanding of liberty and its value to which Berlin was committed was not purely ‘negative’; it included elements of ‘positive’ liberty as Berlin himself defined it. Freedom, and its value, consisted for Berlin not only in the absence of interference, but in being able to make choices about one’s life for oneself—which requires not only absence of interference by others, but the ability to conceive of multiple possible courses. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Berlin’s famous essay ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, showing how Berlin’s earlier writings clarify his intentions and argument in this work, and also how he revised and expanded his earlier account.
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