Effective rebuke against a power-bearer reduces their domination over others.
Evidence
If being benign or saintly means that the person acknowledges that they are subject to challenge and rebuke—if it means that they make themselves answerable in the court of certain considerations—then that entails that they cannot interfere with complete impunity; they can be quoted, as it were, against themselves. Suppose that a power-bearer acknowledges a code of noblesse oblige, for example, or just aspires to be a virtuous person. That is going to mean, in itself, that the power they have over someone else is at least less intense that it might have been; there is a certain reduction in the domination they represent, by virtue of their being exposed to the possibility of effective rebuke. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 328
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how challenge and answerability (resistive community) reduce domination without external coercion — an institutionalized mutual-rebuke mechanism. — connects to: Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 21; Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1661; Devoted lower-power groups can beat materially stronger paid foes. — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor: Unconditional…, 10 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power
#corroborates(0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1661 - Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator
#corroborates(0.80) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 21 - Devoted lower-power groups can beat materially stronger paid foes.
#corroborates(0.75) — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor, 10