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Thinker
Philip Pettit
Irish philosopher at Princeton and the Australian National University who revived civic republicanism and defined freedom as non-domination, i.e. independence from arbitrary power.
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Key ideas
TheoryRepublican freedom as non-dominationPettit's neo-republican theory that freedom is independence from the arbitrary power of others, so a person with a benevolent master is still unfree.ConceptDeliberative democracyThe view that democratic legitimacy depends on informed public deliberation, often organised through randomly selected mini-publics.
Revision history
- 2026-10-23rev 1 — Seed import