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    The liberal conception of freedom as non-interference is ... — Carmelics
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    The liberal conception of freedom as non-interference is insufficient for assessing unfreedom

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    • 1.Philip Pettit's republican conception shows freedom requires absence of arbitrary power to interfere, not merely absence of actual interference.
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    • 2.Structural conditions that make interference possible constrain rational agency even when the powerful choose restraint.
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    • 3.A person who must strategically defer, self-censor, or curry favor to avoid potential interference is unfree regardless of whether interference occurs.
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    • 1.Isaiah Berlin's own analysis concedes that the range and quality of options matters, not merely their formal availability without interference.
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    • 2.Non-interference frameworks systematically misidentify poverty, oppressive social norms, and systemic exclusion as mere incapacity rather than unfreedom, obscuring their political character.
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    • 1.Freedom as non-interference only counts a person as unfree when interference actually occurs
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    • 2.A slave of a benevolent master is unfree despite experiencing no interference
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    • 3.Any adequate conception of freedom must account for cases where domination exists without active interference
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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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