What do liberals mean by liberty?
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What do liberals mean by liberty? is part of the 2016 Contextual Lecture Series: Taking Liberties.
Though liberty is clearly central to the liberal tradition, its shifting interpretations extend beyond conventional understandings of negative and positive liberty. Exploring those mutations reveals the multiplicity of ideological positions that have been adopted under the liberal umbrella over the past two centuries.
Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford. His main interests are the nature of political thinking, the analysis of ideologies, and the study of liberal thought from the 19th century onwards. Author: Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2015). He is the founder-editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies.
