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    A person can be unfree even when experiencing no actual i... — Carmelics
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    A person can be unfree even when experiencing no actual interference

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    • 1.Freedom as non-domination depends on the capacity of another to interfere arbitrarily, not on whether interference actually occurs
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    • 2.A slave of a benevolent master experiences no interference yet remains subject to the master's arbitrary power
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    • 1.Freedom is properly understood as the absence of actual interference with deliberate human action, as Berlin and Hobbes argue in the negative liberty tradition.
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    • 2.Counterfactual possibilities of interference describe a feature of one's social situation, not one's liberty, which is an empirical rather than modal property.
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    • 3.Conflating unfreedom with mere vulnerability to interference illicitly expands the concept of freedom until it becomes indistinguishable from security or power.
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    • 1.Pettit's non-domination framework smuggles in a normative judgment about illegitimate power structures under the guise of a descriptive freedom concept.
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    • 2.The benevolent master case intuition depends on our antecedent moral condemnation of slavery, not on any constraint to the slave's actual action-space.
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    • 3.If subjection to potential arbitrary power constitutes unfreedom, then virtually all citizens under any government are unfree, rendering the concept analytically inert.
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    Another set of arguments for multiculturalism rests on the value of freedom. Some theorists such as Phillip Pettit (1997) and Quentin Skinner (1998) have developed the idea of freedom from domination by drawing on the civic republican tradition. Building on this line of argument to argue for recognition, Frank Lovett (2009) maintains that domination presents a serious obstacle to human flourishing. In contrast to the conception of freedom as non-interference dominant in liberal theory, freedom a
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