What does the idea of 39 positive liberty 39 mean ........

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What does the idea of 'positive liberty' mean?

The state has the right to intervene in the hope of making people's lives more fulfilling.

People should just get out there and do whatever they want.

Only self-confident people can be free.

Freedom means the absence of constraints deliberately imposed by other people.

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Explanation:

The idea that people should do whatever they want (Option 2) is an extreme form of negative liberty; option 4 is also a statement which would be accepted by 'negative' libertarians, whereas from the point of view of positive liberty it is, at best, an incomplete definition. Answer c is about positive thinking rather than positive liberty.