Republicanism’s elite origins can be repurposed as a universal ideal

Evidence

When traditional commonwealthmen and republicans hailed the ideal of freedom as non-domination, they only ever imagined that it was an ideal for an elite of propertied, mainstream males; they were all men, after all, and men of their times. But there is every reason why we should reappropriate their ideal and reintroduce it as a universal ideal for the members of a contemporary society. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to republican revision scholarship; the move from exclusionary elite ideal to universal one mirrors how ‘resistive community’ can be inclusive. — connects to: Ideas can serve republicanism regardless of their author’s self-identification — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 27; Rationalist-universalists hold political theory can establish one universally valid good regime — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 289

Broader Connections

• Ideas can serve republicanism regardless of their author’s self-identification #expands (0.82) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 27