A Republic for All Sentients: Social Freedom Without Free Will Eze Paez (Preprint version) Most nonhuman animals live on the terms imposed on them by human beings. This condition of being under the mastery of another, or domination, is what republicanism identifies as political unfreedom. Yet there are several problems that must be solved in order to successfully extend republicanism to animals. Here I focus on the question of whether freedom can be a benefit for individuals without a free will. I argue that once we understand the grounds that make freedom a desirable property of choices, we can see how it is appropriate to predicate it of those made by any sentient agent. 1. Introduction Trillions of nonhuman animals live under direct human control. Most are farmed or laboratory animals, being inflicted serious harms in the pursuit of wealth or health. A lucky few are kept as 1 household companions, or are sheltered in animal sanctuaries, having easier lives thanks to the affection and goodwill of their caretakers. However fortunate or unfortunate their condition, all these individuals exist on the terms imposed on them by their legal owners. More broadly, they live on the terms dictated by the institutions of the political community constituted by their human masters. Yet, either as private individuals or incorporated as a government, these masters are scarcely constrained, if at all, by law or social custom to consider the interests of animals when imposing their terms. For their part, animals are powerless to successfully resist that imposition. Many more animals —quintillions of them— live in nature. Frequently humans intervene in 2 ecosystems in ways that are detrimental to wild animals’ interests. Sometimes humans choose to abstain from these harmful interventions out of compassion for animals or respect for nature. Still, even in these cases, it is true that they could intervene, if they so wished. Even wild animals live on Published in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 16 March 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12351 1