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Towards a concept of embodied autonomy: In what ways can a patient’s body contribute to the autonomy of medical decisions?
“Bodily autonomy” has received significant attention in bioethics, medical ethics, and medical law in terms of the general inviolability of a...
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Zhuangzi and Personal Autonomy
I apply the Zhuangzi 莊子 to assess the contemporary value of personal autonomy. Focusing on two concepts, wuwei 無為 and you 遊, I clarify the “wandering...
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Job Autonomy from Philosophical Lenses
The central focus of this essay is Isaiah Berlin’s arguments about the concepts of negative freedom and positive freedom, developed in his...
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Biological Autonomy
The nature of biological autonomy and the choice of an appropriate framework for understanding it are subjects of ongoing debates in philosophy of...
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Paternalism and Liberty/Autonomy as Dialectically Related Concepts
Following a seminal definition by Gerald Dworkin, paternalism comprises interventions which interfere with the liberty or autonomy of a person, lack...
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Work Relationships and Autonomy
Many people lack autonomy because they work jobs that deny them significant and meaningful control over what they do. The negative impact of this can...
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Personal Autonomy and (Digital) Technology: An Enactive Sensorimotor Framework
Many digital technologies, designed and controlled by intensive data-driven corporate platforms, have become ubiquitous for many of our daily...
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Autonomy
Autonomy is a challenge to leadership. It is based on self-determination and development of strong character. Strong leaders are admired in the world...
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Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy?
Although improving both the ecological and social conditions of agriculture are central pillars of agroecology, emerging empirical research has...
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Patient autonomy in the era of the sustainability crisis
In the realm of medical ethics, the foundational principle of respecting patient autonomy holds significant importance, often emerging as a central...
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...
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Relational autonomy and paternalism – why the physician-patient relationship matters
Both paternalism and relational autonomy are two concepts that are much discussed in medical ethics. Strangely enough, they have hardly been...
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Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents
Patients are usually granted autonomy rights, including the right to consent to or refuse treatment. These rights are commonly attributed to patients...
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Kant’s Formula of Autonomy: Continuity or Discontinuity?
In two recent articles I have argued that Kant’s legal and political philosophy can shed new light on his much-contested account of moral autonomy...
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Rethinking Health Recommender Systems for Active Aging: An Autonomy-Based Ethical Analysis
Health Recommender Systems are promising Articial-Intelligence-based tools endowing healthy lifestyles and therapy adherence in healthcare and...
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From a critique of the principle of autonomy to an ethic of heteronomy
Etymologically, autonomy is the ability to give oneself rules and follow them. It is an important principle of medical ethics, which can sometimes...
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Is the autonomy of the will a paradoxical idea?
This essay tackles head on the argument that sees an inherent paradox in the autonomy of the will as the ground for the authority of the fundamental...
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Autonomy
Autonomy is a central theoretical and political concept in Gustavo Esteva’s thought and life. His presence in the dialogue between the Mexican...
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Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked new interest in the notion of vulnerability and in identifying alternative approaches for responding to vulnerable...
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Wittgenstein on the Self and Autonomy of Individual
The paper tries to understand the relationship between the individual and the community where the individual belongs within Wittgenstein’s notion of...