Freedom’s subjective recognition, not just its fact, constitutes its value

Evidence

8. When someone enjoys non-domination that will usually be a matter of common knowledge among relevant parties, so that nondomination has a subjective and intersubjective aspect: it is associated with tranquillity, in Montesquieu’s phrase, and with the ability to look others in the eye. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1224

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does common knowledge of non-domination get established and maintained in real societies lacking explicit legal guarantees?
• XREF: connects to: Freedom is not self-founded but thrown, creating its own facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1156; Freedom is proactive self-influence, not merely the absence of coercion.; Freedom is meaningful only as engaged by free choice of ends

Broader Connections

• Freedom is meaningful only as engaged by free choice of ends #corroborates (0.78)
• Freedom is proactive self-influence, not merely the absence of coercion. #expands (0.75)
• Freedom is not self-founded but thrown, creating its own facticity #qualifies (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1156