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In defence of personal autonomy
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011In 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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Autonomy, Experience, and Reflection. On a Neglected Aspect of Personal Autonomy
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2009The aim of this paper is to suggest that a necessary condition of autonomy has not been sufficiently recognized in the literature: the capacity to critically reflect on one’s practical attitudes (desires, preferences, values, etc.) in the light of new experiences. It will be argued that most prominent accounts of autonomy—ahistorical as well as history-
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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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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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Autonomy and the Confucian Moral Person
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2002Evaluation 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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Reflections on personal autonomy
2023One of the most intimate and problematic issues in philosophy is the matter of personal autonomy. It is intimate because most people care intensely about whether their decisions and way of life are autonomously chosen and lived. The issue of personal autonomy is problematic because the barriers to autonomous action can be subtle and unnoticeable. It is
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Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective?
2020This 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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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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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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Personalized Learning and Autonomy
Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media, 2021In 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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Libertarianism and Personal Autonomy
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2001Critique du rejet de la liberte positive au profit de la liberte negative au sein du libertarisme. Examinant l'argument de la valeur instrumentale de la liberte, fonde sur la capacite d'autonomie de la personne, l'A. montre que la justification libertariste de la liberte negative neglige les dimensions sociales et economiques de la justice distributive.
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Journal of Social Philosophy, 1998
Soulevant le paradoxe de la neutralite de l'etat en matiere de vie bonne et la reconnaissance publique de certaines vertus intrinseques a la vie humaine, l'A. se propose de repondre aux objections d'incoherence et de non-substantialite opposees au liberalisme contemporain, en soulignant l'ideal d'autonomie qui fonde la neutralite liberale, d'une part ...
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Soulevant le paradoxe de la neutralite de l'etat en matiere de vie bonne et la reconnaissance publique de certaines vertus intrinseques a la vie humaine, l'A. se propose de repondre aux objections d'incoherence et de non-substantialite opposees au liberalisme contemporain, en soulignant l'ideal d'autonomie qui fonde la neutralite liberale, d'une part ...
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