Individual freedom and state freedom are the same condition under republicanism

Evidence

It is not only the republican equation of freedom with citizenship— and the view, therefore, that the laws help to create freedom—that makes good sense if freedom is non-domination. So does the associated republican claim that the conditions under which a citizen is free are one and the same as the conditions under which the city or state is free (cf. Harrington 1992: 8). Suppose the laws and customs suffice to constrain those within and without a society who would wield arbitrary power over others; and suppose that they do not introduce arbitrary powers in their own right. We may say that those who live under that dispensation are free. Or we may say, with equal justice, that the dispensation represents a free polity, a free mode of organization and government. It is perfectly intelligible why the concern of republicans should as often focus on how to achieve the free body politic as on how to achieve freedom for individuals. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 198

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Willing one’s own freedom and willing others’ freedom are the same act — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 88; Freedom and independence are distinct and often mutually exclusive — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 824; Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144

Broader Connections

• Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others #corroborates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144
• Willing one’s own freedom and willing others’ freedom are the same act #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 88
• Freedom and independence are distinct and often mutually exclusive #contradicts (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 824