...value of classical liberalism — stressed freedom, not as the absence of external constraint, but as "a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying." Whereas negative freedom was commonly seen as freedom from government restrictions, positive freedom...

..."When we speak of freedom as something to be highly prized," said TH Green,97 "we mean a positive power of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others." That is more valuable than the negative conception because...

...can be enjoyed by one man or one set of men at the cost of a loss of freedom to others. . . . we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying...doing or enjoying, and that, too, something which we do or enjoy in common with others. We mean by it a power which each man exercises through the help...

...contrast, as we have seen, new liberals championed a positive conception of freedom, defined by TH Green as "a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying."5 In the view of Green and the new liberals who followed his philosophical lead, freedom...

...a loss of freedom to others. When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying...worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others. . . . ... If I have given a true account of that freedom...

...a loss of freedom to others. When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying...worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others. We mean hy it a power which each man exercises through the...

...freedom," he urged embrace of a "positive THE EMPTY IDEA OF LIBERTY 41 freedom," which he defined as the "positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying."75 Green's reformulation of the problem of liberty found an enormously receptive audience....

...British political theorist TH Green had, by the late nineteenth century, defmed a positive freedom as "a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying...worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others." This sort of thinking lay at the basis of Mills's position...

...rights, although as vague in its implications for policy as Green's argument concerning liberty as "a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying," nevertheless directly challenged the liberal conception of freedom (EP, 156; ME, 276-9).33 In The Methods...

...economic barriers. Green therefore put forward instead his distinctive interpretation of liberty as 'a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying'.' Liberty thus involved for the individual an effective, rather than purely formal, possibility, in the...