On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy
by:
Philip Pettit (author)
According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a...
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According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip P
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781139847841 (1139847848)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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