Republican freedom requires living among others, not isolation from them

Evidence

The absence of domination may mean the absence of domination in the presence of other people: the status associated with living among other people, none of whom dominates you. Or it may mean the sort of status that can also be realized through the absence of other people: through living in isolation from society. Non-domination, as that is valued in the republican tradition, means the absence of domination in the presence of other people, not the absence of domination gained by isolation. β€” Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 336

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines non-domination as a social, other-regarding ideal intrinsic to civic life among people.
  • XREF: connects to: Milton saw republican freedom as equal ease of ordinary social contact between citizens β€” Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 360