Download or read book Two Concepts of Liberty written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Oxford : Clarendon. This book was released on 1959 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This lecture insisted upon negative liberty as the political complement to the human capacity for free choice, and made matching metaphysical claims: the nature of being, and especially the conflicts amongst values, were inconsistent with totalitarian claims. Berlin, arguing along this line, provided an account of the perversion of positive liberty into a warrant for such claims, discussed nationalism, and emphasized the value‐pluralism, now linked so frequently with his name"--Taken from Oxford Scholarship Online.