Autonomous Action: Self-Determination in the Passive Mode  

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Buss, Sarah

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 122 no. 4 (Jul. 2012), page 647-691.
Topik: Autonomous Actions; Self-Determination; Personal Autonomy

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.30 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In order to be a self-governing agent, a person must govern the process by means of which she acquires the intention to act as she does. But what does governing this process require? The standard compatibilist answers to this question all assume that autonomous actions differ from nonautonomous actions insofar as they are a more perfect expression of the agent’s agency. I challenge this conception of autonomous agents as super agents. The distinguishing feature of autonomous agents is, I argue, the nonagential role they play in the formation of their intentions. I offer an account of the relevant role. Almost everyone who has ever had an opinion about personal autonomy seems to take it for granted that it is a good thing to govern oneself when one acts. Yet it is surprisingly difficult to say just what this valuable state of affairs comes to. Most of us want our behavior to be “up to us,” in some way that goes beyond the mere fact that it is responsive to our intentions. But we do not know what we need in order to have the additional measure of self-determination we want.

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