Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.47960/2831-0322.2022.1.26.23
HOW MUCH DOES NEGATIVE LIBERTY NEED POSITIVE LIBERTY IN ECONOMIC ISSUES?
Zdravko Perić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek
Marin Petković
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek
Abstract
In attempting to rectify the inequalities ensuing from the flaws of negative liberty, proponents of social justice turn to economic po- licies based on positive liberty. Unaware of the value provided by each of these notions of liberty, they neglect the tyrannical potential of positive liberty which results from its instrumental value. Pro- moting government intervention in the market and redistribution of resources as a means by which inequalities are to be redressed, allows for the concentration of power in one place, which renders individual freedom ineffective. This paper suggests that the promo- tion of social justice through positive liberation is damaging to in- dividual freedom due to the government’s monopoly on regulating the social structure.
Keywords
social justice; negative liberty; positive liberty; equali- ty; paternalism; economic freedom.
Hrčak ID:
284622
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Publication date:
21.10.2022.
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