Freedom in the Well-ordered Republic

Philip Pettit

doi:10.1080/13698230.2025.2510867

Freedom in the Well-ordered Republic

Philip Pettit

Center for Human Values

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Abstract

Frank Lovett provides a fine account of civic republicanism but focuses too exclusively on freedom as a property of choices. The account can be improved if room is also made, as it was by figures in the long republican tradition, for freedom as a property of persons. The well-ordered republic is a regime that enables citizens to count equally as free persons both in relation to one another and in relation to their government.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2025.2510867
State	Accepted/In press - 2025

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Philosophy
Sociology and Political Science

Keywords

Citizen
Domination
Equality
Freedom
Republicanism

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Freedom in the Well-ordered Republic

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