Non-domination requires normative reasons for respect, not just legal sanctions

Evidence

One reason that widespread civility is needed is that people can be assured of their non-domination only so far as others recognize normative reasons for respecting them, not just reasons connected to fear of legal sanctions. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1289

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Milgrom’s private-judge institutions argument: law alone fails without reputation backed by shared values. — connects to: Non-domination requires active citizen contribution and cannot be produced by institutions alone. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 74; Non-domination requires security against interference across possible worlds, not mere actual non-interference. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 137; Non-arbitrary governance needs contestability rather than actual consent — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 839 (+9 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the resistive-community claim that trust-forming institutions must rest on shared normative commitment rather than coercion.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1289

Broader Connections

• Freedom can be defined through domination rather than through respect for others. #contradicts (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 164
• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery #expands (0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1207
• Sovereign violence operates without needing rational or ethical justification #contradicts (0.75)
• Norms work mainly through external sanctions, not internalized motivation #contradicts (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 168
• Moral behaviour springs from the Other’s powerless demand, not from sanctions #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611
• Moral standards are personally constructed, not passively absorbed #qualifies (0.70)