One person’s freedom requires that all in their vulnerability class be free
Evidence
A communitarian good is one that has both a social and a common character. It is social insofar as its realization requires that people are involved in mutual, intentional interaction; it is common insofar as it can be realized for one only if it is realized for some or all others. … Freedom as non-domination is a communitarian good. It can be realized only under an arrangement involving people in communal interaction. And it can be realized for one person only so far as it is realized for others in the vulnerability classes to which that person belongs: thus, a woman can be fully free in this sense only insofar as womanhood is not a badge of vulnerability, only insofar as all women are free. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1244
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the ‘communitarian good’ and shows non-domination’s common character makes one person’s full freedom depend on others’.
- XREF: The vulnerability-class claim parallels intersectional arguments and the passage from One Square Inch of Silence-like group-based analysis; echoes collective-action logic from Milgrom chapters. — connects to: Freedom as non-domination is a universal primary good requiring state action to secure. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1233; One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132; Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Others’ freedom is the condition of, not a limit on, my own freedom
#expands(0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 91 - Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others
#corroborates(0.92) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144 - One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed.
#contradicts(0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132 - Acts that respect one person’s freedom can tyrannize another’s.
#qualifies(0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132