Liberalism, autonomy, and self-transformation.
The writer discusses the concepts of liberalism, autonomy, and self-transformation. He notes that although the concept of the autonomous person has played a key role in liberal political theory, critics of the concept of autonomy claim that it discriminates between groups and distorts debates on ce...
| Published in: | Social Theory & Practice Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 185 - 207 |
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Florida State University, Dept. of Philosophy
April 2001
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| Summary: | The writer discusses the concepts of liberalism, autonomy, and self-transformation. He notes that although the concept of the autonomous person has played a key role in liberal political theory, critics of the concept of autonomy claim that it discriminates between groups and distorts debates on certain policy questions. He concludes by proposing a new concept of the autonomous agent that is better able to reflect the motivational structure, self-conceptions, and complex constitutions of a wide variety of persons. |
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