Domination and Freedom: Quality, not Quantity*

IF 0.9 2区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Matteo Boccacci
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Abstract Does domination make us unfree? Republicans argue that it does. Thus, they contend that the liberal conception of freedom is inadequate as it is not (wholly) able to account for domination. I provide a new approach to this controversy. The liberal conception of freedom has the potential to account for domination, but we must adjust the scope of our analysis: claims about domination are best understood not as claims about quantities of liberal freedom, but as claims about the value of liberal freedom. Even if the master is benevolent and indeed does not interfere much with the slave’s choices and actions, the relation of domination affects the quality of the slave’s liberal freedom. To argue for this point, I provide a taxonomy of the value of freedom and then, on this basis, point to several ways in which freedom under domination lacks value.
支配和自由:质量,而不是数量*
统治使我们不自由吗?共和党人则认为确实如此。因此,他们认为自由主义的自由概念是不充分的,因为它不能(完全)解释统治。我提供了一种新的方法来解决这个争议。自由主义的自由概念有可能解释支配,但我们必须调整我们的分析范围:关于支配的主张最好不是关于自由自由数量的主张,而是关于自由自由价值的主张。即使主人是仁慈的,确实不会过多干涉奴隶的选择和行为,统治关系也会影响奴隶自由的质量。为了论证这一点,我对自由的价值进行了分类,然后在此基础上,指出了在统治下自由缺乏价值的几种方式。
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期刊介绍: Res Publica: a Journal of Legal, Moral and Social Philosophy is an interdisciplinary publication concerned with the philosophical analysis of moral, political, social and legal issues. It provides a forum for discussion of theoretical issues; a public arena for voicing matters of practical concern; and a vehicle for addressing questions of morality, politics, law and society, the interconnections between them and, more generally, the relation of theory to practice. The journal seeks to publish articles and review essays which are both philosophically rigorous and accessible to a wide range of academics and professionals. Replies to articles are welcome. It is the policy of Res Publica to encourage publication by researchers at the beginning of their careers as well as by established scholars; and by those in non-Western countries.
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