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IDEAS AND THINKERS

Liberalism and freedom

Commitment to individual freedom is at the heart of liberalism. Maria Egan analyses the extent to which liberals vary in their concept of freedom and their ideas of how it is best achieved

The political ideas sections of both the AQA and Edexcel specifications require knowledge and understanding of how liberals agree and disagree about the concept of freedom and the individual.

In broad terms, classical liberals argue for negative freedom alone, whereas modern liberals advocate for the addition of positive freedom:

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