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Personal Autonomy in Society (Paperback)
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Personal Autonomy in Society (Paperback)
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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. Oshana embraces the idea that her account is
'perfectionist' in a sense, and argues that ultimately our
commitment to autonomy is defeasible, but she maintains that a
social-relational account best captures what we value about
autonomy and best serves the various ends for which the concept of
autonomy is employed.
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