… Our historical sketch begins in Antiquity, then considers Enlightenment thought (especially
that of Rousseau and Kant), before developing an account of the factors which influenced …

… Enlightenment were fascinated by the Stoic idea of the unity of the moral man and the order
of nature, and it was this idea … as to the idea of a development towards autonomous morality.…

… Third, the university is becoming absorbed into the public sphere of mass society as new
debates about accountability surface, challenging the Enlightenment idea of the autonomy and …

… concept of normal autonomy too where a person’s freedom of thought and action is …
advancements in the modern world, the exercise of rational autonomy has become more …

… view that should be replaced by the acceptance of a postmodern perspective in which the self
is more … inherent tendencies toward psychologic-ill growth, a unified self; and autonomous, …

… to make their views known to legislators and to other citizens would violate the criteria of
effective participation and enlightened understanding, and it would mock the idea of final control …

… This article considers the philosophical foundations of the French Enlightenment through a
… autonomy, despite Condorcet’s insistence that the modern idea of liberty (that is, his own idea…

… Besides its intrinsic enlightenment concern with intellectual autonomy there obtains but a
historically contingent connection between the scientific world-conception and party-political …

… Echoing tensions in Nietzsche’s writing, Diprose outlines the parameters of this dispute in
terms of whether we are more likely to “find our-selves” by looking inwards in an autonomous …

… In Foucault's version of enlightenment, the individual subject's rational autonomy is not
bound up with the idea of the unified rational subject. Far from it, for, as he saw it, there exists …