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 horrible reality of this world, or abandon it to an…
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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 with the being's instinct. This effect is perhaps…
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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, because we have a moral obligation to respect…
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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, than our moral autonomy.
Nothing can be 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 say about how we treat that person? What would he…
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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 enter into sexual relationships with other people.
In many countries,…
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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 destruction, etc. so basically, the majority of my…
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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 association":
Feminist philosophers have been critical of…
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