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(The GiveWell Blog) March 2024 open thread
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(Policy of Truth) REPUBLICAN FREEDOM WITHOUT NON-DOMINATION?
How much of republicanism can we get without making any essential reference to domination? Maybe quite a lot. First, whatever job the government has, if carrying out this job requires substantial power that is liable to abuse, then part of your political ideal should be republican democracy (and you should be very leery of even…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on something that domination might be by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. (1) I’m quite sympathetic to your criticism of Pettit (and republicanism) at the end there! (2) My characterization of domination here is meant to include any intentional or knowing/quasi-intentional patterns of attitu…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on domination, non-domination and (republican) freedom by Michael Young
Not all objectionable paternalism is objectionable because it is a type of domination. Paternalism can be objectionable due to its interfering with the patient (or for other reasons) as well as due to its constituting the domination of the patient. So …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on something that domination might be by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. It seems to me that your basic assumption is that there are no paradigmatic cases of domination that take place through indifference or moral blindness. That strikes me as very counter-intuitive. Consider a parallel case, th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on domination, non-domination and (republican) freedom by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. I think it’s clear that Pettit faces a problem with paternalism. To be freedom-diminishing, paternalism has to be a case of domination. To be a case of domination, it has to make the paternalized patient subject to the …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on domination, non-domination and (republican) freedom by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Pettit should (and maybe does in his better spots) admit that securing republican freedom does diminish non-interference-type liberty: at the descriptive level, at the normative level of actions that as a default or in most c…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on something that domination might be by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. There is something to be said for getting the personal-type cases right, before tackling the more complex group/social/institutional cases. In your two personal-type cases, both would be cases of domination/dependency relatio…
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