![]() ![]() ![]() One aim of this article is to raise doubts about whether this is true. Because the slave is a widely accepted paradigm of the unfree person, the case of a slave with a non-interfering master is often cited as providing a good argument for the first republican claim and against a negative conception of freedom. When compared to negative freedom, Pettit’s republican conception comprises two controversial claims: the claim that we are unfree if we are dominated without actual interference, and the claim that we are free if we face interference without domination. The basic idea is to conceptualize freedom as non-domination, not as non-interference or self-mastery. ![]() Philip Pettit’s republican conception of freedom is presented as an alternative both to negative and positive conceptions of freedom. ![]()
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