Domination, Freedom and Relational Egalitarianism

The republican critique of domination often rests on both a particular account of unfreedom – what will here be called ‘the any-option account’ – and an account of the badness of domination that appeals to the value of relational equality. This paper argues that these two accounts are incompatible: if what makes domination objectionable is that it undermines egalitarian social relations, then some alternative account of freedom must be adopted.