The Theory and Practice of Autonomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theory and Practice of Autonomy write by Gerald Dworkin. This book was released on 1988-08-26. The Theory and Practice of Autonomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of autonomy and uses the concept to analyse various practical moral issues such as proxy consent in the medical context, paternalism, and entrapment by law enforcement officials.
Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature
Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature write by Thomas Heyd. This book was released on 2005-11-09. Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do the ways in which we think about and describe nature shape the use and protection of the environment? Do our seemingly well-intentioned efforts in environmental conservation reflect a respect for nature or our desire to control nature's wildness? The contributors to this collection address these and other questions as they explore the theoretical and practical implications of a crucial aspect of environmental philosophy and policy-the autonomy of nature. In focusing on the recognition and meaning of nature's autonomy and linking issues of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and policy, the essays provide a variety of new perspectives on human relationships to nature. The authors begin by exploring what is meant by "nature," in what sense it can be seen as autonomous, and what respect for the autonomy of nature might entail. They examine the conflicts that arise between the satisfaction of human needs (food, shelter, etc.) and the natural world. The contributors also consider whether the activities of human beings contribute to nature's autonomy. In their investigation of these issues, they not only draw on philosophy and ethics; they also discuss how the idea of nature's autonomy affects policy decisions regarding the protection of agricultural, rural, and beach areas. The essays in the book's final section turn to management and restoration practices. The essays in this section pay close attention to how efforts at environmental protection alter or reinforce the traditional relationship between humans and nature. More specifically, the contributors examine whether management practices, as they are applied in nature conservation, actually promote the autonomy of nature, or whether they turn the environment into a "client" for policymakers.
Language Learner Autonomy
Language Learner Autonomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Learner Autonomy write by David Little. This book was released on 2017. Language Learner Autonomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book combines detailed accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. Points for discussion encourage readers to relate the argument of each chapter to their own context, and the book concludes with some reflections on teacher education.
The Logic of Autonomy
The Logic of Autonomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logic of Autonomy write by Jan-R Sieckmann. This book was released on 2012-11-13. The Logic of Autonomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 validity depends on their being recognised as valid by their addressees? The questions of how autonomous morality and, on this basis, the authoritative character of law can be understood, present persistent puzzles that have been widely discussed, but still await a satisfactory solution. This book presents an analysis of the idea of autonomy as self-legislation and its consequences for law and morality. It links the idea of autonomy with the idea of the balancing of normative arguments, develops a notion of normative arguments as distinct from normative judgements and statements and explains claims to correctness and objectivity that are found in normative discourse. Thus, a 'logic of autonomy' emerges, and it is pervasive in normative reasoning. It connects theses regarding the logic of norms, the structure of balancing, human and fundamental rights, legal validity, legal interpretation, and the relations among legal systems, offering a theory of central elements of normative argumentation, a theory that is undergirded by the mutual relations that exist between and among its parts as well as through the relations that it bears to other theories. Moreover, it offers an alternative to Kantian notions of autonomy and provides solutions to problems that other theories have failed to master.
Practical Autonomy and Bioethics
Practical Autonomy and Bioethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practical Autonomy and Bioethics write by James Stacey Taylor. This book was released on 2010-07. Practical Autonomy and Bioethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops a unique account of autonomy in which its attribution to agents is dependent in part on their relationships with others and not merely upon their mental states. This is then applied to bioethical issues—e.g., informed consent and patient confidentiality—in which autonomy plays a central role.
