ABSTRACT
This chapter explores alternative conceptions of freedom with a view to identifying the understanding of freedom that best fits the contractarian approach defended in the book. It concludes that a modified Kantian approach works best, modified to include the idea that an important aspect of freedom consists in only being subject to rules that you yourself endorse, an idea that incorporates aspects of Pettit’s Republican approach to freedom that are attractive. This approach to freedom fits in well with the theory of justice as mutual advantage argued for in the rest of the book.
