Freedom as non-domination is conceptually inseparable from reducing uncertainty, strategy, and subordination

Evidence

The considerations rehearsed so far show that advancing someone’s freedom as non-domination is likely to help them escape from uncertainty, strategy, and subordination; certainly, it is more likely to do this than advancing their freedom as non-interference. But something stronger also holds true. Suppose we take steps to reduce a person’s uncertainty about interference, to reduce their need for exercising a strategy of deference and anticipation with others, and to reduce the subordination associated with vulnerability. It is hard to see how we could take such steps without at the same time advancing their freedom as non-domination. Freedom as non-domination appears to be, not just a more or less sufficient instrument for promoting those effects, but a more or less necessarily associated factor. There is no promoting non-domination without promoting those effects; and there is no promoting those effects without promoting non-domination. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 441

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that non-domination is not merely an instrument for but is necessarily bound up with the three felt benefits.
• XREF: connects to: Perceived subordination stems from others’ accessible options, not their probable actions — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 431; Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1207; Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 21 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery #corroborates (0.78) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1207
• Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator #corroborates (0.75) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 21
• Domination becomes a mutual communicative asymmetry, not just objective control #expands (0.72) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 315