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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Autonomy in Everyday Life -- 1 What is Autonomy? A Conceptual Approach -- Remarks on the history of the concept -- Negative freedom, positive freedom, autonomy -- Conditions of individual autonomy -- Autonomy and rational plans -- 2 Ambivalences -- Various forms of ambivalence -- Ambivalence as a disease of the will -- Is an ambivalent will a healthy will? -- The ambivalent self -- Conflicts of ambivalence as conflicts of identity -- Autonomy and the acceptance of conflicts |
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3 Autonomy and the Meaning of Life -- Sisyphus contented -- Does the meaning of life consist in the satisfaction of desire? -- The objective meaning of life -- Mill's crisis and subjective meaning in life -- When does the question of meaning arise? -- 4 Autonomy, Self-Knowledge, and Self-Deception -- Self-knowledge and self-determination -- Self-deception: how can I be mistaken about myself? -- How can self-knowledge fail? On fundamental epistemic uncertainties -- The quantified self -- 5 Autonomy, Self-Thematization, Self-Examination: From Diaries to Blogs |
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Self-examination, self-control, reflection -- Why diaries? And which diaries? -- Autonomy in the diary: examples -- Blogs and the new technologies of self-examination -- What is the framework of autonomy? -- 6 Autonomous Choice and the Good Life -- The question of the good life and perfectionism -- Happiness, autonomy, and meaning -- The significance of choosing: conditions of an autonomous decision -- Who actually chooses and in what context? -- Alienation (and authenticity) -- Virtue and character -- 7 Private Life -- Why privacy? -- Dimensions of privacy |
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Informational privacy, social relationships, and autonomy -- Autonomous persons in relationships (I) -- Autonomy and domestic privacy: autonomous persons in relationships (II) -- Privacy and democratic society -- 8 Social Preconditions of Autonomy -- What are social conditions? -- The social constitution of autonomy -- Autonomy, ideology, and adaptive preferences -- Social opportunities and justice -- Between autonomy and oppression: limiting cases -- 9 The Reality of Autonomy -- Autonomy is not an illusion -- The significance of social practices -- Social unfreedom and implicit bias |
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Aspects of moral responsibility -- Autonomy and the life well lived -- Notes -- Introduction: Autonomy in Everyday Life -- Chapter 1 What is Autonomy? A Conceptual Approach -- Chapter 2 Ambivalences -- Chapter 3 Autonomy and the Meaning of Life -- Chapter 4 Autonomy, Self-Knowledge, and Self-Deception -- Chapter 5 Autonomy, Self-Thematization, Self-Examination: From Diaries to Blogs -- Chapter 6 Autonomous Choice and the Good Life -- Chapter 7 Private Life -- Chapter 8 Social Preconditions of Autonomy -- Chapter 9 The Reality of Autonomy -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Autonomy (Philosophy)
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Life.
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Autonomy (Philosophy)
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Life
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wagner, James C
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| ISBN |
1509544933 |
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9781509544936 |
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