We met on Monday 21st January to continue our discussion of Economic Freedom, with a speech from Milton Friedman and the second part of Adam Curtis’ The Trap.
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The next meeting is on Monday, 14 January 2019 at 7pm. Please see the About page for more details.
The topic is the concept of freedom, which we will address from many perspectives from December to February. This week’s discussion will centre on economic freedom.
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Last night was our second Darkly event, and it was a great success, with ten people taking part in a lively discussion on freedom. It centred on Isaiah Berlin’s essay “Two Concepts of Liberty” (PDF), which divides the concept into two types: Negative freedom is freedom from coercion, constraints, or interference, whereas positive freedom is freedom to act according to one’s free will, and to self-actualise thereby.
Berlin argues that while these two conceptions of freedom largely overlap, there are points at which they conflict, and that these conflicts can have dire political consequences. While some found this distinction arbitrary, and potentially not the most useful way to divide up the concept, the essay still served as a fruitful starting point for discussion.
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