Two Concepts Of Liberty

Isaiah Berlin,the representive of Liberalism and Value Pluralism in the twentieth century, explained the two concepts of liberty ,which is not only critic and consequent to the traditional western theory of liberty but also intergration and innovative to the Value Pluralism. His theory of the two concepts of Liberty opened up the pluralistic development era of the Liberalism.Isaiah Berlin based his Liberty theory on his concepts of Positive Liberty and Negative Liberty. The author took the two concepts of Liberty as the center and clues, and clarified the Liberty theory of the Value Pluralism comprehensively. The author illustrated the content, disparity and the inner relationship of the two concepts of Liberty in a deep and systemic way, and demonstrated how to keep the dynamic balance of the two liberty, and explored the dilemma and solution of Isaiah Berlin's Liberty theory in further. Finally, the significance of Isaiah Berlin's Liberty theory is analyzed in the last part.