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Are rights less important for republicans than for liberals? Pettit versus Pettit

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It has become a commonplace in neo-republican thinking to claim that if the notion of rights can be allowed a place in republican political theory, it can never achieve the prominence that liberalism allegedly grants it. Philip Pettit’s book, Republicanism, provides several arguments to buttress this thesis. This article aims at examining these arguments in order to show that once properly stated, they must on the contrary be considered as powerful arguments to the effect that republicans take rights very seriously.
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hal-01784030 , version 1 (02-05-2018)

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Christopher Hamel. Are rights less important for republicans than for liberals? Pettit versus Pettit. Contemporary Political Theory, 2017, 16 (4), pp.478-500. ⟨10.1057/s41296-016-0071-1⟩. ⟨hal-01784030⟩
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