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标题：Republicanism: An Unattractive Version of Liberalism
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作者：Carla Saenz
期刊名称：ethic@ - An international Journal for Moral Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：1677-2954
出版年度：2008
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：267-285
语种：Portuguese
出版社：Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
摘要：http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n2p267Philip Pettit is the most important contemporany advocate of the republican tradition in political philosophy. He advances a concept of freedom as non-domination, and constrasts it with the liberal conception of freedom as non-interference. He claims that two features distinguish domination from interference: (1) The capacity of interference ( as opposed to actual interference), and (2) the fact that the interference is arbitrary. I shall argue that Pettit´s republicanism is not sufficiently differente from liberalism, certainly not from John Rawls´s liberalism. The only relevant difference between republicanism and liberalism is related to (2): the notion of arbitrariness. Yet this difference makes republicanism an unattractive version of liberalism, insofar as it, paradoxically, allows for republicanism to legitimize a grave form of domination, paternalism, and, in general, domination coming from the state. This problem gets exacerbated by Pettit´s consequentialist framework.