New Essays on the History of Autonomy
New Essays on the History of Autonomy

Author: Natalie Brender

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-06-07

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780521828352

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Kantian autonomy is often thought to be independent of time and place, but J.B. Schneewind in his landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that there is much to be learned by setting Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy.The distinguished authors in the collection continue Schneewind's project by relating Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors and to the empirical context of human agency.This will be a valuable resource for professionals and advanced students.

Personal Autonomy
Personal Autonomy

Author: James Stacey Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-01-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781139442718

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Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists.

The Invention of Autonomy
The Invention of Autonomy

Author: Jerome B. Schneewind

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780521479387

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This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.

New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy

Author: Christopher Watkin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1000811646

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What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary challenges? How have the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political pressures, intersecting oppressions and the climate emergency? The challenges to autonomy today reach across society with unprecedented complexity, and in this book leading scholars from philosophy, economics, linguistics, literature and politics examine the role of autonomy in key areas of contemporary life, forcefully defending a range of different views about the nature and extent of resistance to autonomy today. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the predicament and prospects of one of modernity’s foundational concepts and one of our most widely cherished values. Chapter 5.6 and 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Future Primitive
Future Primitive

Author: John Zerzan

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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This neo-Luddite sequel to Elements of Refusal includes Future Primitive, The Mass Psychology of Misery, Tonality and the Totality, The Catastrophe of Postmodernism, excerpts from The Nihilists Dictionary, and other essays, columns, and reviews. From the editor of Against Civilization and the confidant of alleged Unabomber Ted Kazcynski.

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

Author: J. B. Schneewind

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0199563012

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J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.

Kant on Moral Autonomy
Kant on Moral Autonomy

Author: Oliver Sensen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1107004861

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This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.

Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care
Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care

Author: David N. Weisstub

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-20

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1402058411

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This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.

Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy
Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy

Author: Cornelius Castoriadis

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780195069631

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These remarkable essays include Cornelius Castoriadis's latest contributions to philosophy, political and social theory, classical studies, development theory, cultural criticism, science, and ecology. Examining the "co-birth" in ancient Greece of philosophy and politics, Castoriadis shows how the Greeks' radical questioning of established ideas and institutions gave rise to the "project of autonomy." The "end of philosophy" proclaimed by Postmodernism would mean the end of this project. That end is now hastened by the lethal expansion of technoscience, the waning of political and social conflict, and the resignation of intellectuals who blindly defend Western culture as it is or who merely denounce or "deconstruct" it as it has been. Discussing and criticizing Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Weber, Heidegger, and Habermas, the author of The Imaginary Institution of Society and Crossroads in the Labyrinth poses a radical challenge to our inherited philosophy.

Against Autonomy
Against Autonomy

Author: Timothy J. Reiss

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9780804743501

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This book investigates "cultural instruments," meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture. It explores their history from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean, in the process giving close readings of a wide range of authors.