Liberty And Rights

Question 1

What is Liberty?

Answer 1

Absence of Restraints, Freedom of choice, availability of favourable conditions, obtaining happiness

Question 2

Liberty is also understood as ____________.

Answer 2

Freedom or Self rule

Question 3

Explain Thomas Hobbes view of liberty.

Answer 3

Liberty means absence of Restraints. He considers liberty as a natural right of an individual.

Question 4

Explain Jhon Lockes view of Liberty.

Answer 4

Absence of freedom and freedom or choice. It is an individual’s natural right.

Question 5

Explain Jean Jacques Rousseau’s view on liberty.

Answer 5

Liberty frees an individual from hurdles created by the rise of civil and political society. He looked at liberty as a collective perspective.

Question 6

Explain John Stuarts Mills view on liberty.

Answer 6

Based on the concept that man has full control over his body and mind. He supported individual liberty and opposed unrestrained control by the state.

Question 7

Explain Isaiah Berlin’s views on liberty

Answer 7

He believed that liberty is unrestrained. Discussed about positive and negative liberty.

Question 8

How did negative liberty emerge?

Answer 8

Classical and neo-classical liberalism.

Question 9

What does negative liberty believe in?

Answer 9

The state should not interfere in the life of an individual

Question 10

Who explained negative liberty?

Answer 10

J.S Mills
Isaiah Berlin
Fredrick Hayek
Robert Nozick

Question 11

What does negative liberty do?

Answer 11

Opposes all restraints on liberty.