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Problems with Autonomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Beate Rössler
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Abstract

The article first develops an account of autonomy, explaining individual autonomy by means of three normative components and then discussing two objections. The first objection claims that autonomy has to be thought of as essentially relational; this objection is refuted. The second objection, labeled the skeptical objection, claims that we simply do not live autonomously, nor could we ever. Reference is made to novels by Iris Murdoch to present a skeptical solution to this objection.

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Highlights from the 9th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, October 2000, Zurich, Switzerland
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Fall 2002 , pp. 143 - 162
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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