A Radical Revolution in Thought

Alan M. S. J. Coffee
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While the image of the slave as the antithesis of the freeman is central to republican freedom, it is striking that slaves themselves have not contributed to how this condition is understood. I draw on the long-overlooked work of Frederick Douglass to show how this results in a one-sided conception of both freedom and slavery, which leaves republicanism unable to provide equal and robust protection for historically outcast people. Douglass argued that republican freedom under law is always dependent on a more fundamental ‘radical revolution in thought’, in which the entire system of social norms and practices are reworked together by members of all constituent social groups—women and men, black and white, rich and poor—so that it reflects a genuinely collaborative achievement. Only then can we begin the republican project of establishing a contestatory freedom as non-domination that today’s republicans take for granted.
激进的思想革命
虽然奴隶作为自由人的对立面的形象是共和自由的核心,但令人惊讶的是,奴隶本身并没有对这种状况的理解做出贡献。我利用弗雷德里克·道格拉斯(Frederick Douglass)长期以来被忽视的作品来说明,这是如何导致对自由和奴隶制的片面观念的,这使得共和主义无法为历史上被排斥的人提供平等和有力的保护。道格拉斯认为,法律下的共和自由总是依赖于一种更根本的“思想上的激进革命”,在这种革命中,所有社会群体的成员——女性和男性,黑人和白人,富人和穷人——都重新制定了整个社会规范和实践体系,从而反映了一种真正的合作成就。只有这样,我们才能开始共和主义的计划,建立一种今天的共和主义者认为理所当然的、不受支配的、有争议的自由。
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