In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip
Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a
simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering
a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for
social and democratic progress.
Whereas many thinkers define freedom as the absence of
interference we are left alone to do as we please Pettit demands
that in their basic life choices free persons should not even be
subject to a power of interference on the part of others. This
notion of freedom as non-domination offers a yardstick for gauging
social and democratic progress and provides a simple, unifying
standard for analyzing our most entangled political quandaries.
Pettit reaffirms the ideal, already present in the Roman
Republic, of a free citizenry who enjoy equal status with one
another, being individually protected by a law that they together
control. After sketching a fresh history of freedom, he turns to
the implications of the ideal for social, democratic, and
international justice.
Should the state erect systems for delivering mandatory
healthcare coverage to its citizens? Should voting be a citizen s
only means of influencing political leaders? Are the demands of the
United Nations to be heeded when they betray the sovereignty of the
state? Pettit shows how these and other questions should be
resolved within a civic republican perspective.
Concise and elegant in its rhetoric and ultimately radical in
its reimagining of our social arrangements, Just Freedom is neither
a theoretical treatise nor a practical manifesto, but rather an
ardent attempt to elaborate the demands of freedom and justice in
our time."
General
| Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Norton Global Ethics Series, 0 |
| Release date: |
April 2014 |
| First published: |
March 2014 |
| Authors: |
Philip Pettit
|
| Dimensions: |
218 x 150 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-393-06397-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
Political science & theory
|
| LSN: |
0-393-06397-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780393063974 |
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