Positive Liberty: Negative Liberty, Anarchism, Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Frankfurt School, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Humanism, Philosophy, Erich Fromm

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Positive liberty refers to having the power and resources to act to fulfill one's own potential, as opposed to negative liberty, which refers to freedom from restraint. Inherent to positive liberty is the idea that liberty is the ability of citizens to participate in their government, or in voluntary co-operation in the case of anarchists. As Isaiah Berlin noted, positive liberty is interested in action by citizens in the government. This is why he called it positive liberty, for pro-action. Berlin distinguished between two forms or concepts of liberty - negative liberty and positive liberty - and argued that the latter concept has often been used to cover up abuse, leading to the curtailment of people's negative liberties "for their own good".