On The Origin Of Autonomy

Author : Bernd Rosslenbroich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319041414

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On the Origin of Autonomy by Bernd Rosslenbroich Pdf

This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution. In recent years ideas about major transitions in evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. They include questions about the origin of evolutionary innovation, their genetic and epigenetic background, the role of the phenotype and of changes in ontogenetic pathways. In the present book, it is argued that it is likewise necessary to question the properties of these innovations and what was qualitatively generated during the macroevolutionary transitions. The author states that a recurring central aspect of macroevolutionary innovations is an increase in individual organismal autonomy whereby it is emancipated from the environment with changes in its capacity for flexibility, self-regulation and self-control of behavior. The first chapters define the concept of autonomy and examine its history and its epistemological context. Later chapters demonstrate how changes in autonomy took place during the major evolutionary transitions and investigate the generation of organs and physiological systems. They synthesize material from various disciplines including zoology, comparative physiology, morphology, molecular biology, neurobiology and ethology. It is argued that the concept is also relevant for understanding the relation of the biological evolution of man to his cultural abilities. Finally the relation of autonomy to adaptation, niche construction, phenotypic plasticity and other factors and patterns in evolution is discussed. The text has a clear perspective from the context of systems biology, arguing that the generation of biological autonomy must be interpreted within an integrative systems approach.

Author : Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052147938X

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The Invention of Autonomy by Jerome B. Schneewind Pdf

This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:933998570

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The Invention of Autonomy: a History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Pugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198858584

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Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics by Jonathan Pugh Pdf

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in this sphere. Yet, there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cash out the relationship between rationality and autonomy. In particular, it is unclear whether a rationalist view of autonomy can be compatible with legal judgments that enshrine a patient's right to refuse medical treatment, regardless of whether ". . . the reasons for making the choice are rational, irrational, unknown or even non-existent". In this book, I bring recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to bear on the question of how we should understand autonomy in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, I develop a new framework for thinking about the concept, one that is grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play in personal autonomy. Furthermore, the account outlined here allows for a deeper understanding of different form of controlling influence, and the relationship between our freedom to act, and our capacity to decide autonomously. I contrast my rationalist with other prominent accounts of autonomy in bioethics, and outline the revisionary implications it has for various practical questions in bioethics in which autonomy is a salient concern, including questions about the nature of informed consent and decision-making capacity.

Author : Christopher Yeomans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199394548

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The Expansion of Autonomy by Christopher Yeomans Pdf

In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its autonomy looks like a sham. Yeomans explores Hegel's own attempts to grapple with this problem against the background of Kant's attempts, in his theory of virtue, to understand the way that morally autonomous agents can be robust individuals with qualitatively different projects, personal relations and commitments that are nonetheless infused with a value that demands respect.

Author : Jeffrey Church
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271061627

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Infinite Autonomy by Jeffrey Church Pdf

G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality—to consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of community above the individual. The theoretical and practical implications of this project are important, because the proper defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the individual—what he calls the “historical individual,” which goes beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.

Author : Stefano Bacin,Oliver Sensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107182851

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The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy by Stefano Bacin,Oliver Sensen Pdf

A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.

Author : Catriona Mackenzie,Natalie Stoljar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195352603

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Relational Autonomy by Catriona Mackenzie,Natalie Stoljar Pdf

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.

Author : Valery I. Chirkov,Richard Ryan,Kennon M. Sheldon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789048196678

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Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context by Valery I. Chirkov,Richard Ryan,Kennon M. Sheldon Pdf

This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy development which has been under development for more than three decades (Deci & Ryan, 2000). As the contributions will make clear, psychological autonomy is a concept that forms the bridge between the dependence of human behavior on biological and socio-cultural determinants on the one side, and people’s ability to be free, reflective, and transforming agents who can challenge these dependencies, on the other. The authors within this volume share a vision that human autonomy is a fundamental pre-condition for both individuals and groups to thrive, and that without understanding the nature and mechanisms of autonomous agency vital social and human problems cannot be satisfactory addressed. This multidisciplinary team of researchers will collectively explore the nature of personal autonomy, considering its developmental origins, its expression within relationships, its importance within groups and organizational functioning, and its role in promoting to the democratic and economic development of societies. The book is aimed toward developmental, social, personality, and cross-cultural psychologists, towards researchers and practitioners’ in the areas of education, health and medicine, social work and, economics, and also towards all interested in creating a more sustainable and just world society through promoting individual freedom and agency. This volume will provide a theoretical and conceptual account of the nature and psychological mechanisms of personal motivational autonomy and human agency; rich multidisciplinary empirical evidence supporting the claims and propositions about the nature of human autonomy and capacities for self-regulation; explanations of how and why different psychological and socio-cultural conditions may play a role in promoting or undermining people’s autonomous motivation and well-being, discussions of how the promotion of human autonomy can positively influence environmental protection, democracy promotion and economic prosperity.

Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521700345

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What Makes Biology Unique? by Ernst Mayr Pdf

This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the contributions of philosophy to the science of biology, and comments on several of the major ongoing issues in evolutionary theory. Notably, Mayr explains that Darwin's theory of evolution is actually five separate theories, each with its own history, trajectory and impact. Natural selection is a separate idea from common descent, and from geographic speciation, and so on. A number of the perennial Darwinian controversies may well have been caused by the confounding of the five separate theories into a single composite. Those interested in evolutionary theory, or the philosophy and history of science will find useful ideas in this book, which should appeal to virtually anyone with a broad curiosity about biology.

Author : Natalie Brender,Larry Krasnoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Autonomy (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0511214685

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New Essays on the History of Autonomy by Natalie Brender,Larry Krasnoff Pdf

Kantian autonomy is often thought to be independent of time and place, but J.B. Schneewind in his landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that there is much to be learned by setting Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy. The distinguished authors in the collection continue Schneewind's project by relating Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors and to the empirical context of human agency. This will be a valuable resource for professionals and advanced students in philosophy, the history of ideas, and the history of political thought.

Author : James Stacey Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521732344

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Personal Autonomy by James Stacey Taylor Pdf

This volume brings together original essays addressing the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays investigating the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by prominent philosophers currently in these areas, the book represents cutting-edge research on the nature and value of autonomy and will be essential reading for a broad range of philosophers as well as psychologists.

Author : Stephen M. Streeter,William D. Coleman,John C. Weaver
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774816014

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Empires and Autonomy by Stephen M. Streeter,William D. Coleman,John C. Weaver Pdf

Globalization is one of the most significant developments of our time. But which elements of contemporary globalization and forms of autonomy are novel and which are merely continuations of long-standing trends? This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars who focus on historical moments that involved the establishment or protection of autonomy, moments that inevitably involved friction. By examining the dialectic between globalization and autonomy at historical junctures ranging from the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1720 to the meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev that led to the end of the Cold War, this volume provides novel insights into the changes overtaking our contemporary world.

Author : John R. W. Speller
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924423

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Bourdieu and Literature by John R. W. Speller Pdf

Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.

Author : Natalie Brender,Larry Krasnoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Autonomy (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1107147581

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New Essays on the History of Autonomy by Natalie Brender,Larry Krasnoff Pdf

Kantian autonomy is often thought to be independent of time and place, but J.B. Schneewind in his landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that there is much to be learned by setting Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy. The distinguished authors in the collection continue Schneewind's project by relating Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors and to the empirical context of human agency. This will be a valuable resource for professionals and advanced students in philosophy, the history of ideas, and the history of political thought.