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Self, Society, and Personal Choice

Author : Diana T. Meyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231064194
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Self, Society, and Personal Choice written by Diana T. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyers (philosophy, U. of Conn.) examines the question of personal autonomy. She observes the effects of childrearing practices and sexual biases, and reflects upon the results in women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Personal Autonomy in Society

Author : Marina Oshana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351911953
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Personal Autonomy in Society written by Marina Oshana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are socially situated amid complex relations with other people and are bound by interpersonal frameworks having significant influence upon their lives. These facts have implications for their autonomy. Challenging many of the currently accepted conceptions of autonomy and of how autonomy is valued, Oshana develops a 'social-relational' account of autonomy, or self-governance, as a condition of persons that is largely constituted by a person’s relations with other people and by the absence of certain social relations. She denies that command over one's motives and the freedom to realize one's will are sufficient to secure the kind of command over one's life that autonomy requires, and argues against psychological, procedural, and content neutral accounts of autonomy. Oshana embraces the idea that her account is 'perfectionist' in a sense, and argues that ultimately our commitment to autonomy is defeasible, but she maintains that a social-relational account best captures what we value about autonomy and best serves the various ends for which the concept of autonomy is employed.

Being Yourself

Author : Diana T. Meyers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742514782
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Being Yourself written by Diana T. Meyers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyers (philosophy, U. of Connecticut, Storrs) presents a collection of essays exploring how to live a life that expresses one's own unique personality and distinctive values; nine of the 13 essays were previously published between 1987 and 2003. Coverage includes autonomous action and its bearing on gender, women's subordination, and women's resis

Relational Autonomy

Author : Catriona Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352602
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Relational Autonomy written by Catriona Mackenzie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. The essays analyze the complex ways in which oppression can impair an agent's capacity for autonomy, and investigate connections, neglected by standard accounts, between autonomy and other aspects of the agent, including self-conception, self-worth, memory, and the imagination.

Personal Autonomy

Author : James Stacey Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139442718
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Personal Autonomy written by James Stacey Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Autonomy and Patients' Decisions

Author : Merle Spriggs
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109182
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Autonomy and Patients' Decisions written by Merle Spriggs and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient autonomy is an important concept in the clinical context, but the idea in contemporary bioethics discussions is often muddled. By looking closely at the ideas of Rosseau, Kant, and Mill, Autonomy and Patients' Decisions traces the modern concept of autonomy from its historical roots. Charting the changes in notions of autonomy in Beauchamp and Childress's seminal Principles of Biomedical Ethics to provide an overview of how autonomy has been viewed in the field, Merle Spriggs then identifies the four distinct notions of autonomy being referred to in contemporary discussion. The examination of these notions, especially the "descriptive psychological" account, in relation to case studies provides a clear concept of autonomy, compatible with both consequentialist and rights-based theories of ethics. This book provides a clear understanding of patient autonomy and will prove essential reading for health care professionals, bioethicsts, and philosophers.

The Self in Society

Author : Leslie Irvine
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781609278670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Self in Society written by Leslie Irvine and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the idea that people have selves nothing more than a mere assumption? This anthology traces the origins of the idea that people have unique destinies to understand and fulfill, and considers how to approach the self as a topic of study. It investigates the role of culture and individual experience in shaping the self.

Radical Business Ethics

Author : Richard L. Lippke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847680702
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Radical Business Ethics written by Richard L. Lippke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against most scholars of business ethics who have articulated a set of moral principles and applied them to problems faced by business people, Richard Lippke steers away from offering moral directives. In Radical Business Ethics, he develops a more comprehensive perspective on business issues that is tied to larger questions of social justice. Analyzing a select group of timely issues such as advertising, employee privacy, and insider trading in the context of debates about the nature of the just society, Lippke argues that the most plausible theory of justice is one whose implications are highly critical of many features of advanced capitalist societies. Radical Business Ethics will be an eye-opening book for students and scholars of ethics, and anyone interested in the role business plays in a just society.

Becoming a Cosmopolitan

Author : Jason D. Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847697540
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Cosmopolitan written by Jason D. Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary to forget aspects of one's racial and ethnic socialization. The idea of forgetting where one came from demands that morally recreated persons disown parts or even all of their cultures if these cultures are oppressive or denigrate human life. Hill draws on existentialism, developmental psychology, and his own experiences as a Caribbean immigrant to the United States to present a philosophy for the new millennium.

Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies

Author : Marie-Claire Foblets
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315413590
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies written by Marie-Claire Foblets and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the exercise of personal autonomy in contemporary situations of normative pluralism. In the Western liberal tradition, from a strictly legal and theoretical perspective the social individual has the right to exercise the autonomy of his or her will. In a context of legal plurality, however, personal autonomy becomes more complicated. Can and should personal autonomy be recognized as a legal foundation for protecting a person’s freedom to renounce what others view as his or her fundamental ‘human rights’? This collection develops an interdisciplinary conceptual framework to address these questions and presents empirical studies examining the gap between the principle of personal autonomy and its implementation. In a context of cultural diversity, this gap manifests itself in two particular ways. First, not every culture gives the same pre-eminence to personal autonomy when examining the legal effects of an individual’s acts. Second, in a society characterized by ‘weak pluralism’, the legal assessment of personal autonomy often favours the views of the dominant majority. In highlighting these diverse perspectives and problematizing the so-called ‘guardian function’ of human rights, i.e., purporting to protect weaker parties by limiting their personal autonomy in the name of gender equality, fair trial, etc., this book offers a nuanced approach to the principle of autonomy and addresses the questions of whether it can effectively be deployed in situations of internormativity and what conditions must be met in order to ensure that it is not rendered devoid of all meaning.

Barbara Bodichon’s Epistolary Education

Author : Meritxell Simon-Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030414418
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Barbara Bodichon’s Epistolary Education written by Meritxell Simon-Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together feminist histories in education with an innovative approach to epistolary narrative analytics. In deploying the notion of the epistolary bildung the author rigorously and eloquently shows how the correspondence of Barbara Bodichon can shed fresh light in a range of personal problems and public issues in women’s lives, which remain relevant today" - Maria Tamboukou, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of East London, UK This book assesses Barbara Bodichon’s significance in the history of the women’s movement in Britain by elaborating a conceptualisation of letters as sources of feminist development. Bodichon was the leader of the first women’s suffrage committee in England, which collected 1,500 signatures in favour of the female vote – a petition presented in the House of Commons by sympathising MPs to support the amendment of the 1867 Reform Bill. This book explores the significance of letter-exchange in Barbara Bodichon’s feminist becoming as she managed to mobilize partisans and secure signatures by means of chains of friendship letters spreading across the country. For letters functioned as platforms where, concomitantly to her making sense of her experiential input, Bodichon adopted, redefined and challenged circulating discourses – transforming them in the process and hence contributing to the production of feminist knowledge, intersubjectively and collaboratively in dialogue with her addressees. At the crossroads of history of feminism, gender history and history of women’s education, this book explores the significance of letter-exchange in Bodichon’s development into one of the galvanizing figures of the women’s rights movement in Victorian England.

Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism

Author : John Christman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139444204
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism written by John Christman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the concepts of individual autonomy and political liberalism have been the subjects of intense debate, but these discussions have occurred largely within separate academic disciplines. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism contains essays devoted to foundational questions regarding both the notion of the autonomous self and the nature and justification of liberalism. Written by leading figures in moral, legal and political theory, the volume covers inter alia the following topics: the nature of the self and its relation to autonomy, the social dimensions of autonomy and the political dynamics of respect and recognition, and the concept of autonomy underlying the principles of liberalism.

Democracy's Midwife

Author : Jack Crittenden
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103296
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Democracy's Midwife written by Jack Crittenden and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Crittenden's excellent new study looks behind the modern democratic rhetoric to reveal a system of government that excludes citizens from participating directly in decision making. The book combines a thorough examination of the rhetorical underpinnings of democratic education with radical solutions for overhauling a system of civic education that dates back to the Founding Fathers.

Humanizing Mental Illness

Author : Abigail Gosselin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007356
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanizing Mental Illness by : Abigail Gosselin

Download or read book Humanizing Mental Illness written by Abigail Gosselin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental illness stigma is rooted in a perceived lack of agency, but stigma itself undermines agency. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a person with mental illness has, this book asks how we can enhance the agency of people with mental illness. Humanizing Mental Illness explains and explores these connections, arguing that all of us can and should adjust our social practices to enhance the agency of people with mental illness. This agency is complicated and nuanced, as it is often directly constrained due to a person's symptoms and indirectly constrained due to stigma. Abigail Gosselin, both a scholar in the field of social philosophy and a person with a psychiatric disability, illustrates the importance of social interaction for developing and exercising agency. By overcoming mental illness stigma and by adopting certain epistemic and moral virtues, we can interact with people who have mental illness in ways that help enhance their agency and enable them to flourish. Humanizing Mental Illness demonstrates that we need to challenge our explicit and implicit biases and learn to interact with mental illness in more intentional, supportive, and inclusive ways.

God and the Victim

Author : Jennifer Erin Beste
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198042501
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book God and the Victim written by Jennifer Erin Beste and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian tradition holds that an individual's ability to respond to God's graceto love both God and neighboris not wholly vulnerable to earthly contingencies, such as victimization. Today, however, trauma theory insists that situations of overwhelming violence can permanently damage a person's capacity for responsive agency. For Christians, this theory raises the very troubling possibility that humans can inflict ultimate harm on each other, such that some individuals' eternal destiny can be determined not by themselves but by those who do great harm. Jennifer Beste addresses the challenges that contemporary trauma theory and feminist theory pose to deeply-held theological convictions about human freedom and divine grace. Do our longstanding, widespread beliefs regarding ones access to Gods grace remain credible in light of recent social scientific research on the effects of interpersonal injury? With an eye toward the concrete experiences of trauma survivors, Best carefully considers the possibility that one can be victimized in such a way that his or her receptiveness to Gods grace is severely diminished, or even destroyed. Drawing on insights present in feminist and trauma theory, Beste articulates a revised Rahnerian theology of freedom and grace responsive to trauma survivors in need of healing. Her thinking is characterized by two interconnected claims; that human freedom to respond to Gods grace can in fact be destroyed by severe interpersonal harm, and that Gods love can be mediated, at least in part, through loving interpersonal relations. Offering crucial insights that lead to a more adequate understanding of the relation between Gods grace and human freedom, Bestes important theory reconfigures our visions of God and humanity and alters our perceptions of what it means to truly love ones neighbor.

Morality

Author : Vasil Gluchman
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209812
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Morality written by Vasil Gluchman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays focuses on the new approaches to moral issues from two perspectives. The first part, ‘Various Concepts of Morality’, analyses certain central approaches to moral study, and creates the methodological starting point for the more specific enquiries of the second part. ‘New Trends in Understanding Morality’ contains five articles focusing on these new approaches, especially as they are related to their conceptions of scientific knowledge. This section deals with selected special issues of morality in biology, natural sciences, but also in humanities.

Dignity, Character and Self-Respect

Author : Robin S. Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135769842
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Dignity, Character and Self-Respect written by Robin S. Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology to bring together a selection of the most important contemporary philosophical essays on the nature and moral significance of self-respect. Representing a diversity of views, the essays illustrate the complexity of self-respect and explore its connections to such topics as personhood, dignity, rights, character, autonomy, integrity, identity, shame, justice, oppression and empowerment. The book demonstrates that self-respect is a formidable concern which goes to the very heart of both moral theory and moral life. Contributors: Bernard Boxill, Stephen L. Darwall, John Deigh, Robin S. Dillon, Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Aurel Kolnai, Stephen J. Massey, Diana T. Meyers, Michelle M. Moody-Adams, John Rawls, Gabriele Taylor, Elizabeth Telfer, Laurence L. Thomas.