Relational Autonomy and Paternalistic Interventions |
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Authors: | Jules Holroyd |
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Institution: | (1) Churchill College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, UK |
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Abstract: | Relational conceptions of autonomy attempt to take into account the social aspects of autonomous agency. Those views that
incorporate not merely causally, but constitutively necessary relational conditions, incorporate a condition that has the
form:
(RelAgency) A necessary condition for autonomous agency is that the agent stands in social relations S.
I argue that any account that incorporates such a condition (irrespective of how the relations, S, are spelt out) cannot play
one of autonomy’s key normative roles: identifying those agents who ought to be protected from (hard) paternalistic intervention.
I argue, against objections from Oshana, that there are good reasons for maintaining the notion of autonomy in this role,
and thus that such relational conceptions should not be accepted. This rejection goes beyond that from John Christman, which
holds only for those relational conditions which are value-laden. |
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