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Ethical autonomy : the rise of self-rule / Lucas Swaine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swaine, Lucas, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autonomy (Philosophy).
- Free will and determinism.
- Citizenship--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Citizenship.
- Individualism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Individualism.
- Liberalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Liberalism.
- Liberty of conscience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This text examines the importance of personal autonomy for democratic citizenship and for good lives. It charts the evolution of autonomy and analyzes the proliferation of autonomy in free societies. The work pinpoints serious deficiencies in received ideals of autonomy for individual persons. It delivers an extended critique of personal autonomy, noting the excessive openness and lack of moral structure that personal autonomy provides. It elaborates an argument in favour of ethical autonomy, an alternative kind of autonomy that integrates individual self-rule with moral character.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 10, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-008767-6
- 0-19-008765-X
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