Republican freedom means absence of dependence on arbitrary power, not non-interference.

Evidence

Notice that the republican view of freedom is, at least in the broad sense, a negative conception of political liberty. One need not do or become anything in particular to enjoy political liberty in the republican sense; one need not exercise self-mastery, on any view of what that entails, nor succeed in acting on one’s second-order desires (Skinner 1984, 1991, 2002; Spitz 1995; Pettit 1997). Republican freedom merely requires the absence of something, namely, the absence of any structural dependence on arbitrary power or domination. (Also like noninterference, non-domination comes in degrees: on the civic republican view, one is not either free or unfree, but rather more or less free depending on the extent of non-domination one securely enjoys.) … In contrast to the non-interference view, it easily accounts for our intuitions in the two scenarios described above. The slave lacks freedom because he is vulnerable to the arbitrary power of his master; whether his master happens to exercise that power is neither here nor there. … Thus Joseph Priestley described the lightly-governed American colonies as nevertheless in a condition of servitude because “by the same power, by which the people of England can compel them to pay one penny, they may compel them to pay the last penny they have” (1769 [1993, 140]). — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 18

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that republican freedom (non-domination) is negative liberty — absence of dependence — despite being negative in a different way than non-interference.
• XREF: Connects to Berlin’s two concepts of liberty and to Pettit’s republicanism; could echo themes in things like the master-slave dependence dynamics. — connects to: On the republican view, non-arbitrary laws do not reduce freedom but can enhance it. — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 47; Republican freedom as non-domination fuses absence from negative and mastery from positive liberty. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 122; Republican freedom can relate to noninterference in various distinct ways. — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 29 (+14 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 18

Related

• Freedom in the republican tradition means non-domination rather than merely non-interference (similarity 0.94)
• Republican freedom can relate to noninterference in various distinct ways. (similarity 0.94)
• Republicans hold liberty as non-domination while liberals define it as mere non-interference. (similarity 0.91)
• Republican freedom as non-domination fuses absence from negative and mastery from positive liberty. (similarity 0.91)
• Republican freedom depends on laws that constrain power without creating new domination (similarity 0.90)
• The republican tradition prized liberty as non-domination, not democratic participation (similarity 0.90)
• Freedom means no one holds arbitrary power to interfere with us. (similarity 0.90)
• Republicans held that subjection to another’s arbitrary will itself constitutes unfreedom (similarity 0.89)
• Republican ‘arbitrariness’ means sheer lack of control, not injustice. (similarity 0.89)
• Freedom as non-domination is not reducible to security of non-interference. (similarity 0.87)
• Freedom as non-domination differs from non-interference by targeting the mere capacity for arbitrary interference. (similarity 0.87)
• Liberty can be lost through domination even when no one actively interferes. (similarity 0.86)
• On the republican view, non-arbitrary laws do not reduce freedom but can enhance it. (similarity 0.86)
• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery (similarity 0.86)
• Republicanism offers a third way of understanding freedom beyond liberal and populist models (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Freedom as non-domination is not reducible to security of non-interference. #corroborates (0.94) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 25
• Republicans hold liberty as non-domination while liberals define it as mere non-interference. #expands (0.93) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 46
• On the republican view, non-arbitrary laws do not reduce freedom but can enhance it. #expands (0.92) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 47
• Republican ‘arbitrariness’ means sheer lack of control, not injustice. #expands (0.90) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 34
• Republicans held that subjection to another’s arbitrary will itself constitutes unfreedom #expands (0.90) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1209
• Republican freedom can relate to noninterference in various distinct ways. #expands (0.88) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 29
• Republican freedom as non-domination fuses absence from negative and mastery from positive liberty. #expands (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 122
• Freedom means no one holds arbitrary power to interfere with us. #expands (0.85) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 17
• Political freedom is constituted by institutions, not by the absence of actual interference #expands (0.82) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 22
• In republican theory, law itself creates freedom rather than merely restricting it #expands (0.78) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 53
• Freedom as non-domination is constituted by institutions, not caused by them. #complicates (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1238