Questions tagged [autonomy]
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Moral dilemma: wellbeing vs autonomy
Imagine you are pregnant, or the husband of a mother-to-be.
You live in a world which is brutal; relentlessly cruel.
Prior to birth, an offer is submitted to you:
"Bring your child into the ...
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Does instrumental corruption constitute extra-will multi-agency?
Through my previous question on ideology and instinct, a more fundamental query was encountered. In both individual and collective minds, semantic decay can result in mental threads out of alignment ...
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Why should we treat others as *always* rational when they are not?
In Kantian system, murdering is nonrational because it cannot become a universal law. Yet Kant insists that it's immoral to lie to murderers. This is the same with saying they are rational being, ...
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Moral arguments against dystheism (in the spirit of James Rachels)
Here's my almost-twenty-years-old memory of Rachels' argument (I read it in an introduction-to-ethics class at a community college):
If God existed, there would be a being more important, morally, ...
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What would Kant say about treating people who lack strength of will?
For example, a smoker who wants to quit but can't resist the temptation of a smoke is an autonomous person but lacks strength of will (or character, or habitual rational moral acting). What would he ...
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For Kant, how can we have moral autonomy if there's just one correct moral law?
What else then can freedom of the will be but autonomy, that is, the property of the will to be a law to itself?
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
So that in a nutshell is autonomy and freedom ...
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What kind of argument can be given against the commercialization of mind management?
What kind of argument can be given against participation in the contemporary commercialization of mind management? Participation can be understood in terms of different roles, e.g., as consumer, as ...
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Is this a phenomena in ethics: a tension in understanding but not using others?
Is this a phenomena in ethics: understanding, but not using, others, especially if we are to retain our authenticity, or perhaps better, our autonomy as that exists before our encounter with them?
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In moral-psychology terms, is it in vain, if not downright counterproductive, to compare inner moral issues to combat, esp. as per Kantian ethics?
Note: this question concerns the reason I started posting on this SE years ago, and has to do with my obsession with universal sets, anti-terms (antisets of late), the morality of punishment and ...
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Is "genital autonomy" separable from "sexual autonomy"?
Definitions:
"Genital autonomy": the right to decide what happens to one's genitals, even to the point of irreversibly altering them.
"Sexual autonomy": the right to decide to ...
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What does "tarnish by association" mean in the context of autonomy?
In the last sentence of the first paragraph of section 3a about Feminist Criticisms of Autonomy in the article Autonomy | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, there is a phrase "tarnished by ...
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