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- Title
Negative Freedom and Cultural Belonging: An Unhealthy Tension in the Political Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin.
- Authors
Honneth, Axel
- Abstract
The article analyzes the tension between the notions of negative freedom and cultural belonging based on the political views of philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He was convinced that the normative ideal of negative liberty somewhat depends on a critique of rational monism as it was developed in that romantic movement of cultural pluralism and expressionism. Two concepts of freedom constitute political liberalism: the negative freedom everyone deserves under modern conditions, and the freedom a person experiences when belonging to a culture of his own. Berlin believes that only freedom understood as the absence of obstacles against free choice can be understood as an enabling condition for cultural pluralism.
- Subjects
LIBERTY; CULTURE; BERLIN, Isaiah, 1909-1997; PLURALISM; GROUP identity; MONISM; EXPRESSIONISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Social Research, 1999, Vol 66, Issue 4, p1063
- ISSN
0037-783X
- Publication type
Article