Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognise these norms to be valid. But how can one be bound by norms whose
The autonomy of morality
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Category
- Fiction
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