Personal Autonomy in Society

Marina Oshana (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26520-2 (ISBN)

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People are socially situated amid complex relations with other people and are bound by interpersonal frameworks having significant influence upon their lives. These facts have implications for their autonomy. Challenging many of the currently accepted conceptions of autonomy and of how autonomy is valued, Oshana develops a 'social-relational' account of autonomy, or self-governance, as a condition of persons that is largely constituted by a person’s relations with other people and by the absence of certain social relations. She denies that command over one's motives and the freedom to realize one's will are sufficient to secure the kind of command over one's life that autonomy requires, and argues against psychological, procedural, and content neutral accounts of autonomy. Oshana embraces the idea that her account is 'perfectionist' in a sense, and argues that ultimately our commitment to autonomy is defeasible, but she maintains that a social-relational account best captures what we value about autonomy and best serves the various ends for which the concept of autonomy is employed.

Marina Oshana

Contents: Preface; The concept of autonomy; The inner citadel - autonomy as psychological authenticity; Social-relational autonomy; The conditions for personal autonomy; Objections from liberalism; The value of autonomy; What kind of freedom does autonomy require?; Loose ends and parting thoughts; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-26520-9 / 1138265209
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26520-2 / 9781138265202
Zustand	Neuware