Milton saw republican freedom as equal ease of ordinary social contact between citizens

Evidence

John Milton stressed the intersubjective rather than just the subjective aspects of enjoying republican freedom. ‘They who are greatest’, he says of the ‘free commonwealth’, ‘walk the streets as other men, may be spoken to freely, familiarly, without adoration’ (Worden 1991: 457). — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 360

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Republican freedom requires living among others, not isolation from them — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 336; Freedom originally meant friendship, not isolation — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 15; For social individuals, freedom is a positive relation to the environment — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 3668

Broader Connections

• Republican freedom requires living among others, not isolation from them #expands (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 336
• Freedom originally meant friendship, not isolation #corroborates (0.85) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 15
• For social individuals, freedom is a positive relation to the environment #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 3668