Philip Pettit on What It Means to Be Free

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Philip Pettit discuss small-r “republicanism” and how to make sure people don’t suffer from domination. Philip Pettit is the L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. His latest book is The State. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Philip Pettit discuss the intellectual traditions of liberalism and republicanism; how freedom from domination differs from freedom from interference; and what role the state plays in making people free. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.1	Because it keeps government on its toes, so to speak.
0:30.1	It means government can't be too arbitrary in the decisions it makes.
0:34.0	Equally, of course, having the government itself divided into different branches,
0:39.0	that is really, really crucial because they disem it from actually impose it
0:45.0	and they constrain it from actually imposing it.
0:49.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:00.0	As you will know by now I recently published. A book called The Identity Trap A Story of Ideas and Power in our time.
1:05.5	Please buy the book and read along with these weekly installments of me telling you about some of the
1:12.1	core arguments. We are now up to chapter 10.
1:16.2	We are more than halfway through, I promise. And this chapter is about a subject that is close to my heart and will I believe be close to many of your
1:25.3	hearts and that is free speech. Free speech has historically been a value
1:32.0	embraced by the left.
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