On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

by Philip Pettit

Book Overview

According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this crucial question in On the People's Terms. He argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521182123
• ISBN13: 9780521182126
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"