Hobbesian freedom-as-non-interference displaced republican non-domination only in later eighteenth-century writings

Evidence

So when did the Hobbesian notion of liberty gain popular currency? When did freedom as non-interference displace the ideal of freedom as non-domination? The notion of freedom as non-interference first became prominent, so I suggest, in the writings of a group of thinkers who had an interest, like Hobbes and Filmer, in arguing that all law is an imposition and that there is nothing sacred from the point of view of liberty about republican, or even non-authoritarian, government. β€” Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 222

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  • QUESTION: Pettit teases the historical claim that non-interference arose among thinkers who, like Hobbes, treated all law as imposition - worth chasing who exactly these were.
  • XREF: connects to: Early modern readers mostly rejected the Hobbesian, not the republican, view of liberty β€” Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 205; Eighteenth-century English thinkers held law as the source, not enemy, of civil liberty β€” Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 214; The republican idea of freedom as non-domination dominated Anglophone thought until the late 1700s β€” Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 236 (+3 more)

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