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Personal Autonomy

Social Theory and Practice, 2005
Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility ...
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In defence of personal autonomy

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
In their Principles of biomedical ethics , Tom L Beauchamp and James F Childress take ‘respect for autonomy’ to be one basic principle of contemporary biomedical ethics. There is widespread agreement that respect for autonomy is deeply rooted in modern common morality, but little agreement exists about its nature, scope or strength.
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Sustained Personal Autonomy

Journal of Aging and Health, 2000
Objectives: This study addresses the following question: What characteristics of urban, noninstitutionalized elders predict which individuals are most likely to remain independent of personal assistance during a 2-year observation period? Methods: A population-based sample of 602 noninstitutionalized urban residents aged 70 and older was followed for 2
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Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 1999
Debates on precedent autonomy and some forms of paternalistic interventions, which are related to questions of personal identity, are analyzed. The discussion is based on the distinction between personal identity as persistence and as biographical identity. It first is shown that categorical objections to advance directives and "Ulysses contracts" are
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Personality and Autonomy

2017
In the first chapter, I differentiated four questions hidden behind the label “personal identity”, including the distinction between the question of persistence and the specific way in which persons know about their own existence over time. This knowledge specific to persons will now also be discussed within the conception of personality.
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Autonomy and the Confucian Moral Person

Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2002
Evaluation des interpretations modernes de l'ethique confuceenne. Rejetant la lecture materialiste de H. Fingarette au profit de la lecture internaliste de B. Schwartz, l'A. montre que les notions de choix et d'autonomie ne sont pas etrangeres a la conception confuceenne de la personne morale, meme si elles different de leur acception kantienne.
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Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective?

2020
This chapter unpacks the dominant, though thin and procedural, conception of the principle of respect for personal autonomy in the context of a medical and legal decision to allow a fourteen-year-old Jehovah’s Witness boy to refuse a blood transfusion needed to extend his life.
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Personalized Learning and Autonomy

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media, 2021
In smart classrooms intelligent systems are embedded in the learning environment. The implementation of these systems is widely accepted to introduce a more personalized learning experience, but the educational context has yet not been fully scrutinized.
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