ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to negative and positive freedom, followed by a thought experiment. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. Isaiah Berlin, a Political philosophers, have argued that freedom is in fact ambiguous. It can mean positive freedom or it can mean negative freedom. Moreover, these are not simply two sides of the same coin but are different and competing accounts of freedom. The thought experiment presents a case on the local kids at the football match. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
