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Part 4.1: The Personal and Political Value of Autonomy

Diana Tietjens Meyers
Loyola University of Chicago - Department of Philosophy

1989

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Part IV. Section 1. The Personal and the Political Value of Autonomy:

Disparities in autonomy competency number among the many ways in which women and men in western societies are unequal. Meyers holds that although personal autonomy is not the sole or paramount value, medial autonomy is not only a personal good, but is also a political good.

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Date posted: December 30, 2008 ; Last revised: December 30, 2008

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Tietjens Meyers, Diana, Part 4.1: The Personal and Political Value of Autonomy (1989). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1321795

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Diana Tietjens Meyers (Contact Author)

Loyola University of Chicago - Department of Philosophy ( email )

Chicago, IL 60611
United States