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It won’t be an exaggeration to say that the liberty ideal is among the most important topics of political theory and political philosophy, and that it is the most central theme of liberal political theory. Thus, political theorists, philosophers and scholars have been deal with liberty in some way. However, because of being an “essentially contestable concept”, it has been disputed for a long time that what exactly liberty is and why it is so important. A number of philosophical issues have been brought to the agenda in these disputations. For example, “what the concept of liberty means?”, “what kind of value (if any) liberty has?”, “if liberty has value, what and how much value it is?” and finally, “which institutions or institutions can produce liberty in ideal manner?” There are three kinds of answers to those questions in political philosophy. One can juxtapose them in the following way: “Negative freedom as the absence of intervention”, “positive freedom as rational autonomy” and “republican freedom as the absence of a domineering force”. In this study, these three liberty conceptions will be examined generally and will be scrutinized with their basic premises.

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