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  title info:
    title: Ethical autonomy
    sub title: the rise of self-rule
  name:
    name part: Swaine, Lucas
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Autonomy is a towering concept in human affairs. Its "evocative force" pulses through the discourse of classical antiquity, rising in present times and proliferating across the globe. Vital to social-scientific and philosophical understanding, autonomy stands prominently in the pantheon of democratic values, celebrated together with the basic liberties, justice, equality, toleration and the rule of law. Autonomy is a mainstay of individual freedom and the lifeblood of democratic conceptions of citizenship. Many believe that personal autonomy promotes individuality and authenticity, empowering citizens and spurring positive social change. Various scholars occupy themselves with the question of how to facilitate or to increase personal autonomy in democratic polities. Some ask what liberal government can do to advance personal autonomy, through schooling and other educational measures, in order to enhance people's pursuits or to energize political participation. Others go so far as to propose that personal autonomy is a basic human right, one generating moral and legal entitlements around the world. Numerous advocates have assumed that personal autonomy fits snugly with other important moral and political values. Some presuppose a natural compatibility between personal autonomy and superior ethical agency, reckoning that the more autonomous someone is, the better morally that person will be. Others intimate, or declare outright, that it is decidedly deficient not to be autonomous at the personal level. These views are fabricated from the positive qualities of autonomy, with proponents assuming, even defining, autonomous people as basically moral actors.The rosy notions and happy assumptions about autonomy are dangerous mistakes. Not only do many personally autonomous individuals take form as very bad actors. Numerous of them are terrible miscreants who commit despicable, even monstrous acts. Some autonomous individuals torture, rape and murder people they encounter. O…
  note: Lucas Swaine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Autonomy (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Individualism
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Liberalism
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Liberty of conscience
  classification: B808.67 .S83 2020
  classification: 170
  identifier: 9780190087647
  identifier: 0190087641
  identifier: 9780190087654
  identifier: 9780190087661
  identifier: 9780190087678
  identifier: 2019036507
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191017
    record change date: 20200729073132.0
    record identifier: in00004167055