The non-interference ideal let dominated groups like women be counted as free

Evidence

This new conception became respectable through the work of people like Bentham and Paley, who saw in it a way of conceiving of freedom that would allow even dominated agents like women and servants—so far as they did not suffer actual interference—to count as free. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1213

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the reader’s dress-and-immodesty work — the same move of defining away structural subordination behind a formal, individualist surface. — connects to: Universalizing equality made freedom-as-non-domination seem unrealistic — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 263; Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1207; Maximizing non-interference can justify leaving employees and women subject to powerful others. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 421

Broader Connections

• Universalizing equality made freedom-as-non-domination seem unrealistic #qualifies (0.78) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 263
• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery #responds-to (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1207