This chapter explores a contemporary conventional wisdom of western culture: the
understanding that autonomy is an unalloyed virtue, a version of utopia to be pursued …

Many of us think that autonomy is intrinsically good. When we imagine an ideal human life
we think that its leading features must be chosen by the agent herself, and chosen from …

The task of this paper is to distinguish conceptions of authenticity in an effort to find out
which, if any, can be of service to a plausible theory of autonomous agency. In doing this I …

The metaphor of an" inner citadel" was not used approvingly when Isaiah Berlin invoked it
as part of his attack on the notion of positive liberty (Berlin 1969, pp. 135 ff.). And although …

A central idea in moral and political philosophy," autonomy" is generally understood as
some form of self-governance or self-direction. Certain Stoics, modern philosophers such as …

I. THE VALUES OF AUTONOMY AN autonomous life is, other things being equal, a better
life, or so I here assume, together with many, many others. That is, a life which is shaped, to …

In this paper I propose and develop a social account of global autonomy. On this view, a
person is autonomous simply to the extent to which it is difficult for others to subject her to …

Virtually any appraisal of a person's welfare, integrity, or moral status, as well as the moral
and political theories built on such appraisals, will rely crucially on the presumption that her …

There is a dispute between philosophers who regard personal autonomy as an ideal
condition of moral agents and partisans of the ideal of community. The dispute has become …

Students of utopianism frequently raise the prospect of the 'death of utopia'(see Goodwin
and Taylor, 1982: 48; Kumar, 1987: 381; Manuel and Manuel, 1979: 801). Recent …