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Book The Theory and Practice of Autonomy

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Autonomy written by Gerald Dworkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of autonomy and uses the concept to analyse various practical moral issues such as proxy consent in the medical context, paternalism, and entrapment by law enforcement officials.

Book The Theory and Practice of Governmental Autonomy

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Governmental Autonomy written by Hurst Hannum and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory and Practice of Governmental Autonomy  Documents

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Governmental Autonomy Documents written by Hurst Hannum and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory and Practice of Autonomy

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Autonomy written by Gerald Dworkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of autonomy and uses the concept to analyse various practical moral issues such as proxy consent in the medical context, paternalism, and entrapment by law enforcement officials.

Book Beyond Autonomy

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  • Author : Tracy B. Fenwick
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-03-01
  • ISBN : 9004446753
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Beyond Autonomy written by Tracy B. Fenwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Autonomy forces readers to rethink the purpose of autonomy as a central organising pillar of federalism asking how modern federalism can be reimagined in the 21st Century.

Book Ethical Autonomy

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  • Author : Lucas Swaine
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-03
  • ISBN : 019008765X
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Ethical Autonomy written by Lucas Swaine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomy is one of the most foundational conditions of liberalism, a political philosophy that prizes individual freedom. Today, we still grapple with autonomy's value and its implications. How important is autonomy for a good life? Should people try to achieve autonomy for themselves? And does autonomy support healthy citizenship in free societies? In Ethical Autonomy, Lucas Swaine offers new and compelling answers to these key philosophical and political questions. Swaine charts the evolution of autonomy from ancient Greece to modern democratic life. Illuminating the history of the concept and its development within political theory, he focuses on autonomy at its most basic level: personal autonomy. Swaine methodically exposes the dark side of personal autonomy, pinpointing its deficiencies at both theoretical and practical levels. In so doing, he provides a powerful critique of the very idea of personal autonomy, arguing that it is so underspecified and indeterminate that it falls apart. Moreover, Swaine suggests, personally autonomous individuals devolve and degrade their moral agency, often at others' expense, and in many cases with shocking real-world consequences. Swaine's solution to problems of personal autonomy is to develop a new model of individual-level autonomy, which he calls "ethical autonomy." A form of self-rule integrating moral character and grounded in principles of liberty of conscience, ethical autonomy incorporates restraints on an autonomous individual's imagination, deliberation, and will. It supports the central commitments of liberalism and enhances active and astute forms of democratic citizenship. This novel understanding of autonomy stresses the values of freedom, toleration, respect, individual rights, limited government, and the rightful rule of law.

Book Regional Autonomy  Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government

Download or read book Regional Autonomy Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government written by Roberto Toniatti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice of autonomy in order to pursue the possibility of regional self-government in Tibet. Initiated by a workshop and roundtable with political representatives from different autonomous regions, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, this book brings together a group of distinguished international scholars to offer a much-needed enquiry into solutions to the Tibetan quest for ‘genuine’ autonomy. Examining the Chinese framework of regional self-government, along with key international cases of autonomy in Europe, North America and Asia, the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive context for the consideration of both Tibetan demands and Chinese worries. Their insights will be invaluable to academics, practitioners, diplomats, civil servants, government representatives, international organisations and NGOs interested in the theory and practice of autonomy, as well as those concerned with the future of Tibet.

Book Democratic Autonomy

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  • Author : Henry S. Richardson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780195150919
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Democratic Autonomy written by Henry S. Richardson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Richardson builds a convincing case for a qualified populism and for a strong form of deliberative democracy based on liberal and republican premises.

Book Practising Self Government

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  • Author : Yash Ghai
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-29
  • ISBN : 1107292352
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Practising Self Government written by Yash Ghai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question. The volume's editors draw on the case studies to provide a comparative analysis of how autonomy works and the political and institutional conditions under which it is likely to become a workable arrangement for management of the differences that brought it into being.

Book Autonomy  Self Governance and Conflict Resolution

Download or read book Autonomy Self Governance and Conflict Resolution written by Marc Weller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states are among the most violent forms of inter-communal conflict. Many experts agree that autonomy regimes are a useful framework within which competing claims to self-determination can be accommodated. This volume explores and analyses the different options available. The contributors assess the current state of the theory and practice of institutional design for the settlement of self-determination conflicts, and also compare and contrast detailed case studies on autonomous regimes in the former Yugoslavia, the Crimea, Åland, Northern Ireland, Latin America, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Book Freedom in Practice

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  • Author : Moises Lino e Silva
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2016-11-25
  • ISBN : 1317415493
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Freedom in Practice written by Moises Lino e Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practised in everyday life, including the emergent relationships between governance, autonomy and liberty. The contributors offer a wealth of ethnographic insight from a variety of geographic, cultural and political contexts. Taken together the essays constitute a radical challenge to assumptions about what freedom means in today’s world.

Book Autonomy and the Self

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  • Author : Michael Kühler
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-11-28
  • ISBN : 9400747896
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Autonomy and the Self written by Michael Kühler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions of an agent’s personal autonomy and the constitution of her self in light of two influential background assumptions: a libertarian thesis according to which it is essential for personal autonomy to be able to choose freely how one’s self is shaped, on the one hand, and a line of thought following especially the seminal work of Harry Frankfurt according to which personal autonomy necessarily rests on an already sufficiently shaped self, on the other hand. Given this conceptual framework, a number of influential aspects within current debate can be addressed in a new and illuminating light: accordingly, the volume’s contributions range from 1) discussing fundamental conceptual interconnections between personal autonomy and freedom of the will, 2) addressing the exact role and understanding of different personal traits, e.g. Frankfurt’s notion of volitional necessities, commitments to norms and ideals, emotions, the phenomenon of weakness of will, and psychocorporeal aspects, 3) and finally taking into account social influences, which are discussed in terms of their ability to buttress, to weaken, or even to serve as necessary preconditions of personal autonomy and the forming of one’s self. The volume thus provides readers with an extensive and most up-to-date discussion of various influential strands of current philosophical debate on the topic. It is of equal interest to all those already engaged in the debate as well as to readers trying to get an up-to-date overview or looking for a textbook to use in courses.

Book State Autonomy Or Class Dominance

Download or read book State Autonomy Or Class Dominance written by G. William Domhoff and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book G. William Domhoff provides the most thorough critique to date of state autonomy theory as it has been applied to the American federal government. The view under attack holds that the federal government, rather than the banks and corporations, wields greater power in the United States. Utilizing new arguments and new archival findings, this book challenges every case study that state autonomy theorists have done on the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and World War II. Domhoff then concludes with an analysis of why the theory received so much attention. In addition to demonstrating the weaknesses of state autonomy theory in the case of the U.S., the book presents a step-by-step statement of the author's non-Marxian class dominance theory, defining each concept clearly and suggesting the kind of evidence necessary to support it. The chapters on the origins of the Social Security Act 1935 and on the role of corporations in the industrial mobilization for World War II lead to general statements on the factors that limit the effectiveness of liberal and labor political forces in America; the chapter on the Progressive Era contains an analysis of why the corporate community has been more powerful in the United States than in Europe. Although it is part of a continuing debate with other experts, the author has marshaled his argument in a style that is always accessible. As a result, the book is ideal for use in courses in which the instructor wants to compare and contrast original presentations of rival viewpoints by major proponents of the debated theories.

Book Autonomy

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  • Author : Richard Lindley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Autonomy written by Richard Lindley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minority Self Government in Europe and the Middle East

Download or read book Minority Self Government in Europe and the Middle East written by Olgun Akbulut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Minority Self-Government in Europe and theMiddle East: From Theory to Practice, is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation.

Book The Politics of Persons

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  • Author : John Christman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-05-26
  • ISBN : 9781107402294
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Persons written by John Christman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is both an ideal and an assumption of traditional conceptions of justice for liberal democracies that citizens are autonomous, self-governing persons. Yet standard accounts of the self and of self-government at work in such theories are hotly disputed and often roundly criticized in most of their guises. John Christman offers a sustained critical analysis of both the idea of the 'self' and of autonomy as these ideas function in political theory, offering interpretations of these ideas which avoid such disputes and withstand such criticisms. Christman's model of individual autonomy takes into account the socially constructed nature of persons and their complex cultural and social identities, and he shows how this model can provide a foundation for principles of justice for complex democracies marked by radical difference among citizens. His book will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, politics, and the social sciences.