A Political Philosophy in Public Life Quotes

“One particular aspect of the civic republican tradition that obviously caught Mr. Zapatero’s attention was the eyeball test to which Pettit had drawn attention in his book (1997, 166; see also chapter 2 in this volume). According to this test you enjoy freedom in relation to others—to a particular other or to others as represented in a group or in a government—only insofar as you can look them in the eye, without fear or deference, with a shared consciousness of this equal status.”
― Jose Luis Marti, A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain