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 …

First published in 1999, this volume examines how the question of autonomy has come to be
of recent interest in political theory. The author argues that autonomy goes deep into the …

Was it an act of autonomy when the Finnish rock musician Juice Leskinen, at the beginning
of the 1980s unilaterally and categorically declared his backyard a" nuclear free zone"? His …

Philosophers otherwise as divergent in their views as Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau and Kant,
all subscribed, in one form or another, to the following thesis: no agreement by which a …

The idea that respect for persons requires the state to be neutral (in some sense) between
different conceptions of the good life is an important component of contemporary liberal …

The concept of autonomy has assumed increasing importance in contemporary political
philosophy. Philosophers such as Rawls, Wolff, Scanlon, Raz and Hurley have employed …

I intend to challenge the common assumption that to be autonomous, a person must live a
thoroughly examined life, that she must be critically self-reflective. This challenge will be a …

AUTONOMY is commonly held to be a presup? position of moral agency and hence of
respon? sibility, dignity and self-esteem. In philosophical writings as diverse as those of …

Individual autonomy is an idea that is generally understood to refer to the capacity to be
one's own person, to live one's life according to reasons and motives that are taken as one's …

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 …