“无支配自由”是继柏林的“消极自由”与“积极自由”的二分法之后的另一种自由观。与“积极自由”相比、“无支配自由”的“自主”是免除他者强权干涉的“自主”,而不是理性意义上的自律;与“消极自由”相比,“无支配自由”尊重“无干涉”的选择权利,但比后者具有更高的存在意义。佩蒂特从“无支配自由”观出发,对共和主义进行一种全新的诠释。无支配之共和主义为当代世界的政治理论提供了新的哲学空间。在对立而又交融的多元政治哲学时代,佩蒂特的共和主义思想具有独特的理论价值。
Freedom as non-domination is the other concept of freedom after Isaiah Berlin proposed the two concepts: negative freedom and positive freedom. Compared with positive freedom, self-mastery of freedom as non-domination is free from interference instead of self-discipline in the reason sense; compared with negative freedom, freedom as non-domination focuses on the rights to fulfilling one's desires but is higher than the latter. Starting with Freedom as non-domination, Philip Pettit reinterprated Republicanism. Republicanism as non-domination provided a new theoretical space for the contemporary philosophy. Pepitt's Republicanism has a unique theoretical characteristics in the era of conflicting and mingling pluralisticly political philosophy.