Personal autonomy in society
"People are socially situated amid complex relations with other people and are bound by interpersonal frameworks having significant influence upon their lives. These facts have implications for their autonomy. Challenging many of the currently accepted conceptions of autonomy and of how autonomy is valued. Oshana develops a 'social relational' account of autonomy, or self-governance, as a condition of persons that is largely constituted by a person's relations with other people and by the absen…
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- Full title :Personal autonomy in society / Marina Oshana.
Summary
"People are socially situated amid complex relations with other people and are bound by interpersonal frameworks having significant influence upon their lives. These facts have implications for their autonomy. Challenging many of the currently accepted conceptions of autonomy and of how autonomy is valued. Oshana develops a 'social relational' account of autonomy, or self-governance, as a condition of persons that is largely constituted by a person's relations with other people and by the absence of certain social relations. She denies that command over one's motives and the freedom to realize one's will are sufficient to secure the kind of command over one's life that autonomy requires, and argues against psychological, procedural, and content neutral accounts of autonomy."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Aldershot, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 190 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0754656705, 9780754656708
- oclc:ocm65201227
- LC Classification:B808.67
- Dewey Decimal:126
Table of Contents
The concept of autonomy -- The inner citadel : autonomy as psychological authenticity -- Social-relational autonomy -- The conditions for personal autonomy -- Objections from liberalism -- The value of autonomy -- What kind of freedom does autonomy require? -- Loose ends and parting thoughts.
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