Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral PhilosophyJames Stacey Taylor Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists. |
Contents
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Autonomy without Free Will Bernard Berofsky | 58 |
Autonomy and the Paradox of SelfCreation Infinite Regresses Finite Selves and the Limits of Authenticity | 87 |
Agnostic Autonomism Revisited | 109 |
Feminist Intuitions and the Normative Substance of Autonomy | 124 |
Autonomy and Personal Integration Laura Waddell Ekstrom | 143 |
Responsibility Applied Ethics and Complex Autonomy Theories | 162 |
Autonomy and Free Agency | 183 |
Alternative Possibilities Personal Autonomy and Moral Responsibility | 235 |
Freedom within Reason Susan Wolf | 258 |
Procedural Autonomy and Liberal Legitimacy | 277 |
The Concept of Autonomy in Bioethics An Unwarranted Fall from Grace | 299 |
Who Deserves Autonomy and Whose Autonomy Deserves Respect? | 310 |
Autonomy Diminished Life and the Threshold for Use | 330 |
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The Relationship between Autonomous and Morally Responsible Agency | 205 |
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Page 36 - It is in securing the conformity of his will to his second-order volitions, then, that a person exercises freedom of the will.