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Jessica Flack @c4computation.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Isaiah Berlin—proponent of negative liberties as a remakably effective + broadly useful yet relatively simple (compressed) guiding moral principle—on the perilousness of ideological certainty. From an essay @nybooks by Henry Hardy. nybooks.com/articles/200...

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Jessica Flack @c4computation.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Perspective on rights that emphasize individual liberties are sometimes equated with selfishness or described as anti-social. It is precisely the opposite for the concept of negative liberties. Continued... Image credit: Isaiah Berlin by Steve Pyke, National Portrait Gallery

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Jessica Flack @c4computation.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The beauty and power of negative liberties lies in how freedom is defined—the 'allowed behavior' is the behavior that remains after all behavior that hurts or impinges on the rights of others is 'disallowed'. With the lightest touch,

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