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Personal Autonomy and Related Concepts

Diana Tietjens Meyers
Loyola University of Chicago - Department of Philosophy

December, 30 2008

Abstract:
Part I.

The book begins with literary, cinematic, and historical scenarios that exemplify personal autonomy. Meyers uses these vignettes to distinguish personal autonomy from other, variously related types of autonomy and to show that other kinds of autonomy cannot adequately address the concern people have with their own personal decisions. Noting how profoundly social experience impinges on self-discovery, self-definition, and self-direction, Meyers characterizes autonomous individuals as persons who do what they really want, and she undertakes to supply an account of an authentic self that acknowledges people's enmeshment in social relations as well as their psychological complexity

Working Paper Series

Date posted: December 31, 2008 ; Last revised: December 31, 2008

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Tietjens Meyers, Diana, Personal Autonomy and Related Concepts (December, 30 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1321782

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Diana Tietjens Meyers (Contact Author)

Loyola University of Chicago - Department of Philosophy ( email )

Chicago, IL 60611
United States