ABSTRACT
Liberalism, the author beliefs that liberty is the most important political good. That clearly leaves open the possibilities of divergence as to what liberty is, why it is the most important good, what are the other political goods, and how liberty is related to them. Some understandings of liberty can turn out to be destructive of what classical, individualist Liberals understand by liberty. Starting from I. Berlin's account, and from the criticisms made of it, the author discusses elaborately certain dimensions of liberty. Different concepts of liberty stress some of these and ignore others, but they also differ as to the ways in which they relate liberty to other notions. Liberty is always a simultaneous freedom from and freedom to. Berlin's "negative" freedom is a general freedom for the individual, and his "positive" freedom is a more specific freedom for either the individual or the group.
