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Re(Public)An Reasons: A Republican Theory Of Legitimacy And Justification, Christopher Mccammon
Re(Public)An Reasons: A Republican Theory Of Legitimacy And Justification, Christopher Mccammon
Department of Philosophy: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
There is a kind of power no one should have over anyone else, even if they don’t do anything with this power, or even if they only use this power for good. The republican tradition of political philosophy calls this kind of power domination. Here, I develop a theory of domination, and use this theory to advance our understanding of political legitimacy and justification.
My account of domination refines recent neo-republican attempts to identify dominating social power with the capacity to interfere arbitrarily with the choices of others. I argue that this capacity is not sufficient for domination. Instead, …