Ideas of self and community: Ethical implications for a communitarian conception of moral autonomy
✍ Scribed by Lorraine Kasprisin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 629 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0039-3746
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This paper attempts to construct a concept of moral autonomy that is compatible with a relationally-based or care-based ethical theory. After critiquing the traditional liberal identification of the ethical self with an abstract rational self detached from community and historical narrative, I argue that the ethical self emerges in a dialectical relation with the community itself. Essentially, I argue for a concept of autonomy that will be analyzed as a critical perspective from within a community rather than as a privileged view from outside. Central to this argument is an understanding of the nature and role of moral conversation in the regeneration of community. The nature of that conversation is examined.