Pettit, Philip2016-02-241369-8230http://hdl.handle.net/1885/98637My five commentators do me a great service in exploring different aspects of the position maintained and exposing it to thoughtful challenges. In this reply, I do the very best to keep up the neo-republican end of things, conscious that what I can say in the space allowed is bound to seem all too brief. I consider the critiques in the alphabetical order of the authors.application/pdfen-AU201510.1080/13698230.2015.10926602016-02-24