Women and the History of Republicanism

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Notes

1 Notwithstanding my republican leanings, I should note that I regard Green alongside Wendy Gunther-Canada as the best Macaulay scholars writing today, even if neither employs a specifically republican philosophical key.

2 Indeed, while usually viewed as part of the liberal tradition, each of these philosophers could equally plausibly and helpfully be considered as writing in a republican tradition.

3 This tripartite division of freedom is also found in Lena Halldenius’s work [2015]. While we understand the precise internal relationship of these ideas differently in places, overall I am in substantial agreement with Halldenius on this as in many other aspects of her analysis of historical republican thinking.

4 Indeed, if there were such a contradiction it would mean that a great number of historical men now considered to be republicans—such as Trenchard and Gordon, or Price—should not be so considered because of their clear advocacy of, and reliance on, notions of positive freedom. This would represent a radical reconsideration of the tradition.