The Irish-born philosopher Philip Pettit (*1945) is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has published multiple books, chapters and articles on the topic of republican political theory. Today, he is considered the most influential republican political theorist. This interview was recorded during the Republicanism in the History of Political Philosophy and Today conference, where Phillip Pettit delivered the keynote address entitled “Neo-liberalism and Neo-republicanism”.2 The conference was organised in November 2017 by the Institute of Political Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in cooperation with the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Anglo-American University in Prague and the Centre for Political Philosophy, Ethics and Religion at Charles University.