Full Idea
The very idea of 'negative liberty' ...is an incoherent idea: all liberties are positive, meaning liberties to do or to be something, which all require the inhibition of interference by others.
Gist of Idea
Negative liberty is incoherent; all liberties, to do and to be, require the prevention of interference
Source
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 3)
Book Reference
Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.65
A Reaction
This rejects Isaiah Berlin's well-known claim that negative liberties are good, but positive liberties are far too dangerous.