Podcast appearances and mentions of Philip Pettit

This week we are getting back to the building blocks of politics and democracy with philosopher Philip Pettit.How did states form and are they inevitable? Has globalisation changed our perception of states? And how do different approaches to democracy influence their politics?This week on Democracy Sausage, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Philip Pettit, joins Professor Mark Kenny. Philip Pettit is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy at the ANU and the L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. Mark Kenny is the Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the University after a high-profile journalistic career including six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times. Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. We'd love to hear your feedback on this series, so send in your questions, comments or suggestions for future episodes to democracysausage@anu.edu.au. This podcast is produced by The Australian National University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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: podcast@persuasion.community  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

A conversation with Philip Pettit about his new book "The State" (Princeton UP).

In this episode, we dive into Philip Pettit's Republicanism from 1997, which argued that republicanism and liberalism are not the fast friends many assume them to be. However, many liberal and left philosophers think that neo-republicanism is just riding the coattails of liberalism or that it's just another bourgeois moralism. So what's the big deal? And how radical can republicanism be? This is just a short clip from the full episode, which is available to our subscribers on Patreon:patreon.com/leftofphilosophyReferences:Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford University Press, 1997).Philip Pettit, The Common Mind (Oxford University Press, 1993).Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

After a content creation sabbatical, the podcast is back! Friend of the Podcast Philip Pettit returns to discuss his latest book - the State - we discuss his genealogy of norms, laws, and nations.

Samantha BessonCollège de FranceAnnée 2022-2023Droit international des institutionsColloque - Democratic Representation in and by International Organizations : International Representation: Some General PrinciplesIntervenant(s) :Pr. Philip Pettit, University of Princeton and Australian National University, CanberraInternational organizations (IOs) play a central role in contemporary international law-making: they institutionalize many of the processes through which international law is adopted today, be it through international law-making conferences, international courts or as IO secondary law. Yet, the question of democratic representation (by Member States and/or other public or private institutions or persons involved such as non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations, trade unions, employer's associations, cities, regions or religious groups) in IOs, but also by IOs when they become members of other IOs or intervene as participants in other international law-making processes remains difficult, to say the least. It is one of the many dimensions of the deficit in democratic legitimacy of international law, but one that is rarely addressed as such today –although it has not always been the case and not with respect to all IOs equally. There are many reasons for the contemporary side-lining of the question of democratic representation both in international organizations' law and in international democratic theory. It suffices to mention two of them here: one is the vexed relationship between IOs and "politics" (not to mention democratic politics), and another lies in the (over)emphasis on civil society "participation" and other forms of "stakeholder" inclusion.The conference's aims will be to discuss those issues, but also to examine how IOs could be designed and organized under international law in the future so as to ensure sufficient democratic representation of all those they claim to bind legally, either directly or through their Member States. Various specialists of representation in both international organizations' law and democratic theory have been invited to explore those issues and many others at the conference. The conference is organized around three sets of issues: representation inside IOs (i.e. the different types of public and private representatives and their articulation in different IO deliberation and decision-making processes) (i), through IOs (i.e. the contribution of those forms of public and private representation within IOs to the institutionalization and organization of the relevant public and private representative institutions as such) (ii) and by IOs (i.e. when they become members of other IOs or participate in external international law-making processes) (iii).Speakers: Jochen von Bernstorff (University of Tübingen); Samantha Besson (Collège de France, Paris and University of Fribourg); Francis Cheneval (University of Zurich); Édouard Dubout (University Paris-Panthéon-Assas); Melissa J. Durkee (University of Georgia; Athens); Olivier de Frouville (University Paris-Panthéon-Assas); Évelyne Lagrange (University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne); Marieke Louis (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin); Terry MacDonald (University of Melbourne); José Luis Martí (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg); Philip Pettit (University of Princeton and Australian National University, Canberra); Dominique Ritleng (University of Strasbourg); Pierre Rosanvallon (Collège de France, Paris); Marie-Clotilde Runavot (University of Perpignan Via Domitia).Commentators: Olivier de Frouville (University Paris-Panthéon-Assas); Charles Girard (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3); Bernard Manin (EHESS, Paris); Yves Sintomer (University Paris 8-Vincenne-Saint-Denis).Les organisations internationales (OI) jouent un rôle central dans l'élaboration du droit international contemporain. Pourtant, la question de la représentation démocratique par les (représentants des) États membres et/ou les (représentants des) nombreuses autres institutions ou personnes publiques ou privées (comme les organisations non gouvernementales, les entreprises multinationales, les syndicats ou les villes) qui participent aux procédures de délibération et/ou de décision au sein des OI demeure redoutablement difficile. C'est encore davantage le cas de la représentation démocratique par les OI lorsque ces organisations deviennent membres d'autres OI ou interviennent en tant que participantes à part entière au sein d'autres processus multilatéraux d'élaboration du droit international. Les moyens d'assurer un contrôle populaire ultime et effectif sur ces représentants et les procédures auxquelles ils participent ne sont en effet que rarement donnés, comme d'ailleurs le respect de l'égalité politique entre les peuples du monde et entre leurs citoyens au sein de ces procédures.Ce manque de représentativité démocratique des procédures d'adoption du droit international dans les OI et des OI elles-mêmes est l'une des nombreuses dimensions du déficit plus large de légitimité démocratique du droit international. Malgré sa centralité, la question, plus technique, de la représentation démocratique dans et par les OI n'est que rarement abordée en tant que telle. Différents spécialistes du droit des organisations internationales et de la théorie démocratique ont été invités pour en débattre lors de ce colloque. Il s'agit d'établir ce que devrait recouvrir la notion de représentation démocratique internationale en elle-même et dans/par les OI, puis comment les OI pourraient être réorganisées en droit international de manière à assurer une représentation démocratique suffisante de tous ceux qu'elles prétendent lier juridiquement.Le colloque sera organisé autour de trois séries de questions : la représentation dans, à travers et par les organisations internationales. Il s'agira d'examiner, premièrement, par quelles institutions publiques et privées la représentation démocratique peut et doit se faire au sein des OI conçues comme des systèmes de représentation internationale multiple (i) ; deuxièmement, comment, ce faisant, le droit des OI peut et doit faciliter l'institutionnalisation de ces multiples représentants tant publics (p. ex. les villes) que privés (p. ex. les ONG) en premier lieu et avant leur articulation systématique en son sein (ii) ; et, enfin, comment la représentation par les OI dans d'autres OI ou d'autres procédures internationales peut et doit être organisée pour pouvoir être considérée comme démocratique (iii).Intervenantes et intervenants confirmésJochen von Bernstorff (Université de Tübingen) ; Samantha Besson (Collège de France, Paris) ; Francis Cheneval (Université de Zurich) ; Édouard Dubout (Université Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas) ; Melissa J. Durkee (Université de Géorgie) ; Jacob Katz Cogan (University of Cincinnati) ; Évelyne Lagrange (Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne) ; Marieke Louis (Centre Marc-Bloch, Berlin) ; Terry Macdonald (Université de Melbourne) ; José Luis Martí (Université Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) ; Anne Peters (Institut Max-Planck pour le droit public international et comparé, Heidelberg) ; Philip Pettit (Université de Princeton et Australian National University) ; Dominique Ritleng (Université de Strasbourg) ; Pierre Rosanvallon (Collège de France, Paris) ; Marie-Clotilde Runavot (Université de Perpignan).Commentateurs confirmésOlivier de Frouville (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) ; Charles Girard (Université Jean-Moulin-Lyon 3) ; Franck Petiteville (Sciences Po, Grenoble) ; Yves Sintomer (Université Paris 8-Vincenne-Saint-Denis).Le colloque aura lieu en anglais (à l'exception de quelques interventions en français), sans traduction simultanée.Le colloque bénéficie du soutien financier de la Fondation du Collège de France.

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network.

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people. Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to the past achievements of liberal polities – the widespread (but still imperfect) acceptance of religious toleration and free inquiry, the relative (but still woefully incomplete) deconstruction of class, gender, and racial hierarchies, the (possibly temporary) defeat of totalitarianisms, left and right – to remind ourselves of the promise of a liberal politics, we can look to our many remaining failings, and to the fact that even our achievements are preserved only through our own vigilance, to remind ourselves how fallible our ideals, and the institutions that we have built upon them, actually are. Liberal freedom is, in short, both a richer and a more fragile ideal than many of its supporters – and critics – realize. – Eric MacGilvray, Liberal Freedom (2022) Professor MacGilvray has been studying the concept of freedom for over 15 years culminating in his latest Cambridge University Press publication: Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics. For anyone interested in the importance of freedom and liberalism and the key concepts and thinkers written as intellectual history from the discerning eye of a political theorist and analytic philosopher you will find this book most engaging. His explanation of its relevant issues are well worth your time in this interview. Here is the publisher's description which provides a nice synopsis of the book's main focus: "We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization." Eric's thoughtful book recommendation pairings from this interview for interested listeners: Political philosophy – 1) Philip Pettit's Just Freedom; 2) Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government Political thought – 1) Mill's Considerations of Representative Government; 2) L.T. Hobhouse's Liberalism Popular political – 1) Gopnik's A Thousand Small Sanities; 2) Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism Also, as discussed, The Atlantic article based on Packer's book: Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal  Eric MacGilvray is a political theorist at Ohio State University whose research and teaching interests focus on liberal, republican, and democratic theory as well as the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is a pragmatist whose scholarly journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Philosophy and Policy, among others. Liberal Freedom is his third book and builds on his second, The Invention of Market Freedom. Keith Krueger lectures part-time in the Sydney Business School at Shanghai University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to the past achievements of liberal polities – the widespread (but still imperfect) acceptance of religious toleration and free inquiry, the relative (but still woefully incomplete) deconstruction of class, gender, and racial hierarchies, the (possibly temporary) defeat of totalitarianisms, left and right – to remind ourselves of the promise of a liberal politics, we can look to our many remaining failings, and to the fact that even our achievements are preserved only through our own vigilance, to remind ourselves how fallible our ideals, and the institutions that we have built upon them, actually are. Liberal freedom is, in short, both a richer and a more fragile ideal than many of its supporters – and critics – realize. – Eric MacGilvray, Liberal Freedom (2022) Professor MacGilvray has been studying the concept of freedom for over 15 years culminating in his latest Cambridge University Press publication: Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics. For anyone interested in the importance of freedom and liberalism and the key concepts and thinkers written as intellectual history from the discerning eye of a political theorist and analytic philosopher you will find this book most engaging. His explanation of its relevant issues are well worth your time in this interview. Here is the publisher's description which provides a nice synopsis of the book's main focus: "We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization." Eric's thoughtful book recommendation pairings from this interview for interested listeners: Political philosophy – 1) Philip Pettit's Just Freedom; 2) Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government Political thought – 1) Mill's Considerations of Representative Government; 2) L.T. Hobhouse's Liberalism Popular political – 1) Gopnik's A Thousand Small Sanities; 2) Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism Also, as discussed, The Atlantic article based on Packer's book: Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal  Eric MacGilvray is a political theorist at Ohio State University whose research and teaching interests focus on liberal, republican, and democratic theory as well as the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is a pragmatist whose scholarly journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Philosophy and Policy, among others. Liberal Freedom is his third book and builds on his second, The Invention of Market Freedom. Keith Krueger lectures part-time in the Sydney Business School at Shanghai University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to the past achievements of liberal polities – the widespread (but still imperfect) acceptance of religious toleration and free inquiry, the relative (but still woefully incomplete) deconstruction of class, gender, and racial hierarchies, the (possibly temporary) defeat of totalitarianisms, left and right – to remind ourselves of the promise of a liberal politics, we can look to our many remaining failings, and to the fact that even our achievements are preserved only through our own vigilance, to remind ourselves how fallible our ideals, and the institutions that we have built upon them, actually are. Liberal freedom is, in short, both a richer and a more fragile ideal than many of its supporters – and critics – realize. – Eric MacGilvray, Liberal Freedom (2022) Professor MacGilvray has been studying the concept of freedom for over 15 years culminating in his latest Cambridge University Press publication: Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics. For anyone interested in the importance of freedom and liberalism and the key concepts and thinkers written as intellectual history from the discerning eye of a political theorist and analytic philosopher you will find this book most engaging. His explanation of its relevant issues are well worth your time in this interview. Here is the publisher's description which provides a nice synopsis of the book's main focus: "We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization." Eric's thoughtful book recommendation pairings from this interview for interested listeners: Political philosophy – 1) Philip Pettit's Just Freedom; 2) Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government Political thought – 1) Mill's Considerations of Representative Government; 2) L.T. Hobhouse's Liberalism Popular political – 1) Gopnik's A Thousand Small Sanities; 2) Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism Also, as discussed, The Atlantic article based on Packer's book: Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal  Eric MacGilvray is a political theorist at Ohio State University whose research and teaching interests focus on liberal, republican, and democratic theory as well as the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is a pragmatist whose scholarly journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Philosophy and Policy, among others. Liberal Freedom is his third book and builds on his second, The Invention of Market Freedom. Keith Krueger lectures part-time in the Sydney Business School at Shanghai University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to the past achievements of liberal polities – the widespread (but still imperfect) acceptance of religious toleration and free inquiry, the relative (but still woefully incomplete) deconstruction of class, gender, and racial hierarchies, the (possibly temporary) defeat of totalitarianisms, left and right – to remind ourselves of the promise of a liberal politics, we can look to our many remaining failings, and to the fact that even our achievements are preserved only through our own vigilance, to remind ourselves how fallible our ideals, and the institutions that we have built upon them, actually are. Liberal freedom is, in short, both a richer and a more fragile ideal than many of its supporters – and critics – realize. – Eric MacGilvray, Liberal Freedom (2022) Professor MacGilvray has been studying the concept of freedom for over 15 years culminating in his latest Cambridge University Press publication: Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics. For anyone interested in the importance of freedom and liberalism and the key concepts and thinkers written as intellectual history from the discerning eye of a political theorist and analytic philosopher you will find this book most engaging. His explanation of its relevant issues are well worth your time in this interview. Here is the publisher's description which provides a nice synopsis of the book's main focus: "We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization." Eric's thoughtful book recommendation pairings from this interview for interested listeners: Political philosophy – 1) Philip Pettit's Just Freedom; 2) Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government Political thought – 1) Mill's Considerations of Representative Government; 2) L.T. Hobhouse's Liberalism Popular political – 1) Gopnik's A Thousand Small Sanities; 2) Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism Also, as discussed, The Atlantic article based on Packer's book: Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal  Eric MacGilvray is a political theorist at Ohio State University whose research and teaching interests focus on liberal, republican, and democratic theory as well as the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is a pragmatist whose scholarly journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Philosophy and Policy, among others. Liberal Freedom is his third book and builds on his second, The Invention of Market Freedom. Keith Krueger lectures part-time in the Sydney Business School at Shanghai University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to the past achievements of liberal polities – the widespread (but still imperfect) acceptance of religious toleration and free inquiry, the relative (but still woefully incomplete) deconstruction of class, gender, and racial hierarchies, the (possibly temporary) defeat of totalitarianisms, left and right – to remind ourselves of the promise of a liberal politics, we can look to our many remaining failings, and to the fact that even our achievements are preserved only through our own vigilance, to remind ourselves how fallible our ideals, and the institutions that we have built upon them, actually are. Liberal freedom is, in short, both a richer and a more fragile ideal than many of its supporters – and critics – realize. – Eric MacGilvray, Liberal Freedom (2022) Professor MacGilvray has been studying the concept of freedom for over 15 years culminating in his latest Cambridge University Press publication: Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics. For anyone interested in the importance of freedom and liberalism and the key concepts and thinkers written as intellectual history from the discerning eye of a political theorist and analytic philosopher you will find this book most engaging. His explanation of its relevant issues are well worth your time in this interview. Here is the publisher's description which provides a nice synopsis of the book's main focus: "We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization." Eric's thoughtful book recommendation pairings from this interview for interested listeners: Political philosophy – 1) Philip Pettit's Just Freedom; 2) Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government Political thought – 1) Mill's Considerations of Representative Government; 2) L.T. Hobhouse's Liberalism Popular political – 1) Gopnik's A Thousand Small Sanities; 2) Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism Also, as discussed, The Atlantic article based on Packer's book: Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal  Eric MacGilvray is a political theorist at Ohio State University whose research and teaching interests focus on liberal, republican, and democratic theory as well as the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is a pragmatist whose scholarly journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Philosophy and Policy, among others. Liberal Freedom is his third book and builds on his second, The Invention of Market Freedom. Keith Krueger lectures part-time in the Sydney Business School at Shanghai University.

The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to the past achievements of liberal polities – the widespread (but still imperfect) acceptance of religious toleration and free inquiry, the relative (but still woefully incomplete) deconstruction of class, gender, and racial hierarchies, the (possibly temporary) defeat of totalitarianisms, left and right – to remind ourselves of the promise of a liberal politics, we can look to our many remaining failings, and to the fact that even our achievements are preserved only through our own vigilance, to remind ourselves how fallible our ideals, and the institutions that we have built upon them, actually are. Liberal freedom is, in short, both a richer and a more fragile ideal than many of its supporters – and critics – realize. – Eric MacGilvray, Liberal Freedom (2022) Professor MacGilvray has been studying the concept of freedom for over 15 years culminating in his latest Cambridge University Press publication: Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics. For anyone interested in the importance of freedom and liberalism and the key concepts and thinkers written as intellectual history from the discerning eye of a political theorist and analytic philosopher you will find this book most engaging. His explanation of its relevant issues are well worth your time in this interview. Here is the publisher's description which provides a nice synopsis of the book's main focus: "We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization." Eric's thoughtful book recommendation pairings from this interview for interested listeners: Political philosophy – 1) Philip Pettit's Just Freedom; 2) Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government Political thought – 1) Mill's Considerations of Representative Government; 2) L.T. Hobhouse's Liberalism Popular political – 1) Gopnik's A Thousand Small Sanities; 2) Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism Also, as discussed, The Atlantic article based on Packer's book: Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal  Eric MacGilvray is a political theorist at Ohio State University whose research and teaching interests focus on liberal, republican, and democratic theory as well as the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is a pragmatist whose scholarly journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Philosophy and Policy, among others. Liberal Freedom is his third book and builds on his second, The Invention of Market Freedom. Keith Krueger lectures part-time in the Sydney Business School at Shanghai University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

durée : 01:00:32 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann - Les institutions républicaines sont-elles les garantes d'un esprit commun ? Cette politique commune s'oppose-t-elle à l'individualisme ? Comment se mettre d'accord sur ce que nous protégeons en commun ? - invités : Philip Pettit professeur de philosophie politique à l'université de Princeton

Heute geht's um Opulenz, Abstraktion, Konkretion, die Opportunitätskosten von Begriffsbildung, die Eudämonie im Lichte Gottes und die Hoffnung auf eine stabile Identität. Es treten auf: Wilhelm Reich, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry, Krösus, Jesus, Martin Luther, Hortensius, der Tanzmeister, Philip Pettit und die grässliche, hässliche, unpässliche Hyäne auf dem Drahtseil über dem Abgrund. Folge abspielen

Er gehört zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen unserer Zeit, seine Arbeit strahlt über den Elfenbeinturm hinaus bis in die Politik: Der Ire Philip Pettit. Ursprünglich Priesteramtskandidat, verliebte er sich in die Schriften von Sartre und entdeckte die Freiheit, um die sein Denken bis heute kreist. Am Anfang stand für ihn die Freiheit: Im katholischen Priesterseminar spürte er, dass er sich keinen Fehltritt erlauben durfte und von der Gunst der Vorgesetzten abhing. Als er sich in Sartres Schriften verliebte, war es um ihn geschehen, sagt der gebürtige Ire: Seine Leidenschaft gehörte fortan der Philosophie. Er verliess das Priesterseminar und legte als Philosoph einen beeindruckenden Weg zurück, der in Professuren an den Eliteuniversitäten in Princeton und an der National University Australiens in Canberra gipfelte. Die Freiheit fasziniert ihn bis heute. Mit seiner frühen Erfahrung der Unterwerfung versteht er Freiheit heute in erster Linie als Freiheit von willkürlicher Herrschaft: Wirklich frei ist nur, wer sich selbst gehört. Barbara Bleisch trifft den weltbekannten Philosophen zum Gespräch und fragt nach den politischen Implikationen seines Freiheitsverständnisses, das der ehemalige spanische Ministerpräsident José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero zum Wahlkampfmotto erhob.

Er gehört zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen unserer Zeit, seine Arbeit strahlt über den Elfenbeinturm hinaus bis in die Politik: Der Ire Philip Pettit. Ursprünglich Priesteramtskandidat, verliebte er sich in die Schriften von Sartre und entdeckte die Freiheit, um die sein Denken bis heute kreist. Am Anfang stand für ihn die Freiheit: Im katholischen Priesterseminar spürte er, dass er sich keinen Fehltritt erlauben durfte und von der Gunst der Vorgesetzten abhing. Als er sich in Sartres Schriften verliebte, war es um ihn geschehen, sagt der gebürtige Ire: Seine Leidenschaft gehörte fortan der Philosophie. Er verliess das Priesterseminar und legte als Philosoph einen beeindruckenden Weg zurück, der in Professuren an den Eliteuniversitäten in Princeton und an der National University Australiens in Canberra gipfelte. Die Freiheit fasziniert ihn bis heute. Mit seiner frühen Erfahrung der Unterwerfung versteht er Freiheit heute in erster Linie als Freiheit von willkürlicher Herrschaft: Wirklich frei ist nur, wer sich selbst gehört. Barbara Bleisch trifft den weltbekannten Philosophen zum Gespräch und fragt nach den politischen Implikationen seines Freiheitsverständnisses, das der ehemalige spanische Ministerpräsident José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero zum Wahlkampfmotto erhob.

Er gehört zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen unserer Zeit, seine Arbeit strahlt über den Elfenbeinturm hinaus bis in die Politik: Der Ire Philip Pettit. Ursprünglich Priesteramtskandidat, verliebte er sich in die Schriften von Sartre und entdeckte die Freiheit, um die sein Denken bis heute kreist. Am Anfang stand für ihn die Freiheit: Im katholischen Priesterseminar spürte er, dass er sich keinen Fehltritt erlauben durfte und von der Gunst der Vorgesetzten abhing. Als er sich in Sartres Schriften verliebte, war es um ihn geschehen, sagt der gebürtige Ire: Seine Leidenschaft gehörte fortan der Philosophie. Er verliess das Priesterseminar und legte als Philosoph einen beeindruckenden Weg zurück, der in Professuren an den Eliteuniversitäten in Princeton und an der National University Australiens in Canberra gipfelte. Die Freiheit fasziniert ihn bis heute. Mit seiner frühen Erfahrung der Unterwerfung versteht er Freiheit heute in erster Linie als Freiheit von willkürlicher Herrschaft: Wirklich frei ist nur, wer sich selbst gehört. Barbara Bleisch trifft den weltbekannten Philosophen zum Gespräch und fragt nach den politischen Implikationen seines Freiheitsverständnisses, das der ehemalige spanische Ministerpräsident José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero zum Wahlkampfmotto erhob.

I ask the philosopher Philip Pettit five questions about himself. Philip Pettit is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of many books, including “The Common Mind” (1996), “Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government” (1997), and “The Birth of Ethics” (2018).

Christian List is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. He works at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and political science, with a particular focus on individual and collective decision-making and the nature of intentional agency. Recently, a growing part of his work has addressed metaphysical questions, e.g., about free will, causation, probability, and the relationship between “micro” and “macro” levels of analysis in the human and social sciences. In 2011, he published Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents (co-authored with Philip Pettit). His latest book, titled Why Free Will is Real, is due to appear in 2019. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor List's talk - 'What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response' - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 May 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

The Boys are rejoined again by David Moscop to discuss his new book, Too Dumb for Democracy?, out now wherever fine books are sold! I assume. They're definitely in Ottawa at any rate. Two people we discussed without going a whole ton into: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrington_(author) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pettit

Where did ethics come from? Philip Pettit tells an 'as if' story about the birth of ethics that is designed to illuminate what ethics is and why it evolved on this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. We are grateful for support from the Marc Sanders Foundation and from Patreon donors for this episode. 

In the second part of our conversation Philip Pettit gives his answer to the challenge of the first; creating a reconstructive account of morality that explains its nature, the origins of desirability and responsibility, and why we should be moral. As mentioned in the intro I’ve decided not to accept offers for paid advertisements for the podcast and will be attempting to fund it solely through listener support. You can sponsor us for any amount through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhilosophyPodcast

Philip Pettit returns to the podcast to discuss his latest work The Birth of Ethics. We set of the challenge of resolving the seeming paradox of ethical truth in a naturalistic universe:  In a world explained by science with 'nothing spooky' going on, how, and why, would morality emerge?

NEO-REPUBLICANISM A conversation with Philip Pettit by Toby Buckle

What is a robustly demanding good, and what has that got to do with friendship and love? Find out in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast in which Nigel Warburton interviews Princeton Professor Philip Pettit about this topic.   

This is the second podcast in a series examining the theme of the relationship and tensions between harmony and freedom. This episode approaches this issue from the intimate to the global. My guests are  Philip Pettit, L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University; Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland; and Leif Wenar, Chair of Philosophy and Law at King's College London. Produced in association with the Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Centre. Audio Player Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the second podcast in a series examining the theme of the relationship and tensions between harmony and freedom. This episode approaches this issue from the intimate to the global. My guests are Philip Pettit, L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University; Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland; and Leif Wenar, Chair of Philosophy and Law at King's College London. Produced in association with the Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Centre.

The 88th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association was held at the University of Cambridge from 11 to 13 July 2014. The Joint Session is a three-day conference in philosophy that is held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas. Inaugurated by the incoming President of the Mind Association, the Joint Session includes symposia, open and postgraduate sessions, and a range of satellite conferences. This podcast is a recording of the third symposium at the Joint Session - "Culpability, Duress and Excuses" - which featured Gideon Rosen (Princeton) and Marcia Baron (St. Andrews). Gideon Rosen is Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He joined the faculty of Philosophy in 1993, having taught previously at the University of Michigan. His areas of research include metaphysics, epistemology and moral philosophy. He is the author (with John Burgess) of A Subject With No Object (Oxford, 1997). Marcia Baron is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Rudy Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. Her main interests are in moral philosophy and philosophy of criminal law. Publications include Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology (Cornell 1995), Three Methods of Ethics: A Debate, co-authored with Philip Pettit and Michael Slote (Blackwell, 1997), “Manipulativeness” (2003), “Excuses, Excuses” (2007), “Virtue Ethics, Kantian Ethics, and the ‘One Thought Too Many’ Objection” (2008), “Kantian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of Character” (2009), “Gender Issues in the Criminal Law” (2011), “Self-Defense: The Imminence Requirement” (2011), and “Rape, Seduction, Shame, and Culpability in Tess of the d’Urbervilles” (2013). Forthcoming articles include “The Ticking Bomb Hypothetical” and “The Supererogatory and Kant’s Wide Duties.”

Professor Philip Pettit (Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University) speaks on the topic of ‘Doing Good and Doing Evil'. Are doing good and doing evil on a par? It may at first seem so: doing good to others means conferring a benefit, doing evil means imposing a harm. But first impressions are misleading this case, as in many others. For it turns out that while we expect goodwill in those who do us good, we do not often expect malice in those who do us evil. The difference proves to be significant since it helps to explain some of our most ingrained habits of moral thought. 11 March 2014

Professor Philip Pettit (Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University) speaks on the topic of ‘Doing Good and Doing Evil'. Are doing good and doing evil on a par? It may at first seem so: doing good to others means conferring a benefit, doing evil means imposing a harm. But first impressions are misleading this case, as in many others. For it turns out that while we expect goodwill in those who do us good, we do not often expect malice in those who do us evil. The difference proves to be significant since it helps to explain some of our most ingrained habits of moral thought. 11 March 2014

Professor Philip Pettit (Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University) speaks on the topic of ‘Doing Good and Doing Evil’. Are doing good and doing evil on a par? It may at first seem so: doing good to others means conferring a benefit, doing evil means imposing a harm. But first impressions are misleading this case, as in many others. For it turns out that while we expect goodwill in those who do us good, we do not often expect malice in those who do us evil. The difference proves to be significant since it helps to explain some of our most ingrained habits of moral thought. 11 March 2014

In this episode, Philip Pettit considers whether a corporation can have any special privileges or rights. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In political philosophy, republicanism is the name of a distinctive framework for thinking about politics. At its core is a unique conception of freedom according to which freedom consists in non-domination, that is, in not having a master or lord, in not being subject to the arbitrary will of another. This republican conception of the free person contrasts with a competing and familiar view according to which freedom is primarily a property, not of persons, but of choices. On this view, one is free insofar as one enjoys the absence of interference. For the past few decades, Philip Pettit has been engaged in a sustained effort to revive republicanism as an approach to political philosophy. In a series of articles and books, he has developed and defended the republican conception of freedom. In his latest book, On The People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Pettit articulates a conception of democracy to accompany the fundamental republican commitment to freedom as non-domination. The book examines the full range of topics, from justice to legitimacy and institutional design. This is a highly detailed and meticulously argued book.

In political philosophy, republicanism is the name of a distinctive framework for thinking about politics. At its core is a unique conception of freedom according to which freedom consists in non-domination, that is, in not having a master or lord, in not being subject to the arbitrary will of another. This republican conception of the free person contrasts with a competing and familiar view according to which freedom is primarily a property, not of persons, but of choices. On this view, one is free insofar as one enjoys the absence of interference. For the past few decades, Philip Pettit has been engaged in a sustained effort to revive republicanism as an approach to political philosophy. In a series of articles and books, he has developed and defended the republican conception of freedom. In his latest book, On The People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Pettit articulates a conception of democracy to accompany the fundamental republican commitment to freedom as non-domination. The book examines the full range of topics, from justice to legitimacy and institutional design. This is a highly detailed and meticulously argued book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In political philosophy, republicanism is the name of a distinctive framework for thinking about politics. At its core is a unique conception of freedom according to which freedom consists in non-domination, that is, in not having a master or lord, in not being subject to the arbitrary will of another. This republican conception of the free person contrasts with a competing and familiar view according to which freedom is primarily a property, not of persons, but of choices. On this view, one is free insofar as one enjoys the absence of interference. For the past few decades, Philip Pettit has been engaged in a sustained effort to revive republicanism as an approach to political philosophy. In a series of articles and books, he has developed and defended the republican conception of freedom. In his latest book, On The People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Pettit articulates a conception of democracy to accompany the fundamental republican commitment to freedom as non-domination. The book examines the full range of topics, from justice to legitimacy and institutional design. This is a highly detailed and meticulously argued book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In political philosophy, republicanism is the name of a distinctive framework for thinking about politics. At its core is a unique conception of freedom according to which freedom consists in non-domination, that is, in not having a master or lord, in not being subject to the arbitrary will of another. This republican conception of the free person contrasts with a competing and familiar view according to which freedom is primarily a property, not of persons, but of choices. On this view, one is free insofar as one enjoys the absence of interference. For the past few decades, Philip Pettit has been engaged in a sustained effort to revive republicanism as an approach to political philosophy. In a series of articles and books, he has developed and defended the republican conception of freedom. In his latest book, On The People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Pettit articulates a conception of democracy to accompany the fundamental republican commitment to freedom as non-domination. The book examines the full range of topics, from justice to legitimacy and institutional design. This is a highly detailed and meticulously argued book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Smith is the author of The Moral Problem (1994); Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (2004); and the co-author of Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (2004), a collection of papers written in various combinations by Smith, Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit when they were colleagues at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. In 2004 Smith moved to Princeton University where is currently McCosh Professor of Philosophy. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Smith's talk - "Agents and Patients" - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 June 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

What is republicanism? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Philip Pettit outlines the key features of this important strand in political philosophy, one which has a continuing relevance today. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.

Philip Pettit discusses some common criticisms of consequentialism and how they might be met in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.

When a group of people acts together we can hold that group morally and legally responsible. But how does the group decide to act? Is a decision of the group simply the majoritarian sum of individual group members' views? Princeton philosopher Philip Pettit, who has written a book about this topic with Christian List of the LSE, discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton for the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.