Foreign thinker
Philip Pettit
Philip PettitPolitical Philosophy and Republican TheoryIrish
A person is not free whenever someone has the power to interfere in their life, even if that power is not exercised.
Life and Thought
Philip Pettit is an Irish philosopher and political theorist, born in 1945, one of the leading figures in contemporary political philosophy and a professor at Princeton University. His primary significance lies in reviving the republican tradition and formulating the concept of "freedom as non-domination"; a conception that understands freedom not merely as the absence of interference, but as emancipation from the arbitrary power of others.
