WestGTA - Two Concepts of Liberty (esssay) by Isiah Berlin

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"Two Concepts of Liberty" is the inaugural lecture delivered by the liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin before the University of Oxford in 1958.
The essay, with its analytical approach to the definition of political concepts, re-introduced the study of political philosophy to the methods of analytic philosophy. It is also one of Berlin's first expressions of his ethical ontology of value-pluralism. Berlin defined negative liberty (as the term "liberty" was used by Thomas Hobbes as the absence of coercion or interference with agents' possible private actions, by an exterior social body.