This is the second in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. As we saw in the last post, there is a false dichotomy ...
In a business, employee autonomy can have positive benefits for both the individuals and the company as a whole. When staff members have the freedom to approach their jobs in a way that suits their ...
The "assumption is that more individual autonomy is automatically better," but the "desire to extend and expand the scope of euthanasia doesn't seem to be based on any coherent moral framework," says ...
It was not by chance that when the workers began to radicalize their movement they demanded “autonomy”, that is, their independence from external representatives, whether from the vertical bureaucracy ...
In 2016 a 74-year-old woman was put to death in the Netherlands while showing signs of resistance. The scenery of this loss of life was no classical crime like a robbery gone wrong or a vile murder ...
Parental rights have emerged as a central battleground in the culture wars, debated in school board meetings, courtrooms and legislative chambers across the country. As conflicts intensify over what ...
A PERSONAL CHOICE: Rep. Howard Beaty (R-Crossett) says a bill that would prohibit vaccine mandates supports individual autonomy and personal choice. Republican lawmakers in support of a bill that ...
Both aspects of Kantian autonomy are essential to its meaning. First, autonomy means not being slaves to our desires; we must be able to make ethical choices regardless of our personal preferences. In ...