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en-wikipedia-org-3331		Negative liberty - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3146	487	63	3 Negative liberty and authority: Hobbes and Locke According to Thomas Hobbes, "a free man is he that in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do is not hindered to do what he hath the will to do" (Leviathan, Part 2, Ch. XXI; thus alluding to liberty in its negative sense). Anarcho-capitalist thinker Tibor Machan defends negative liberty as "required for moral choice and, thus, for human flourishing," claiming that it "is secured when the rights of individual members of a human community to life, to voluntary action (or to liberty of conduct), and to property are universally respected, observed, and defended." Negative liberty and authority: Hobbes and Locke[edit] Locke is a slightly more ambiguous case than Hobbes because although his conception of liberty was largely negative (in terms of non-interference), he differed in that he courted the republican tradition of liberty by rejecting the notion that an individual could be free if he was under the arbitrary power of another: Negative and positive rights	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3331.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3331.txt