Treating arbitrary power as a reducer of negative freedom collapses the analytically important distinction between negative liberty and republican non-domination, obscuring rather than illuminating the conceptual landscape.
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A political idea (especially associated with republican philosophy) that emphasizes freedom not just as being left alone, but as not being subject to anyone else's arbitrary will—even if they don't actually interfere with you.
negative freedom(Political philosophy; contrasted implicitly with positive conceptions of freedom)
A conception of freedom that concentrates on the external sphere in which individuals interact, understood as a domain of sovereign action within which individuals may pursue their own projects, limited only by an obligation to respect the equivalent domains of others.