Institutions can be designed so that non-domination is smoothly maximized

Evidence

The discussion in the remainder of this book amounts to a sustained argument that freedom as non-domination satisfies the positive condition. The book is designed to show how institutions can be designed— specifically, designed in a republican pattern—so that people’s enjoyment of non-domination is more or less smoothly maximized. It remains in the present section, then, to indicate why freedom as nondomination satisfies the negative condition: why it is not something that individuals can satisfactorily pursue by relying just on their own private efforts. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 453

Categorization

• DEFINE: Signals the book’s central constructive project: republican institutional design for non-domination.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-domination institutions must remove power, not just reduce harm probability — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 371; Decentralized pursuit of non-domination breeds accumulating petty despotisms, not freedom — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 456; A rationality geared to domination shapes how we construe the Other — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 464 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Decentralized pursuit of non-domination breeds accumulating petty despotisms, not freedom #complicates (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 456
• Freedom as non-domination makes mundane institutional design philosophically central #expands (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1286
• Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it #complicates (0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 518
• Widespread mutual trust alone makes large-scale non-domination freedom possible #qualifies (0.78) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1300
• Institutions can deliberately cultivate servility as a form of unfreedom #qualifies (0.75)
• Accepting vulnerability to others is necessary to enjoy maximal non-domination #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1193
• A rationality geared to domination shapes how we construe the Other #qualifies (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 464