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THE METAPHYSICS OF AUTONOMY IBD

PALGRAVE SCHOL, PRINT UK
07 / 2004
9781403939388
Inglês

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If we want to be autonomous, what do we want? The author shows that contemporary value-neutral and metaphysically economical conceptions of autonomy, such as that of Harry Frankfurt, face a serious problem. Drawing on Plato, Augustine, and Kant, this book provides a sketch of how ?ancient? and ?modern? can be reconciled to solve it. But at what expense? It turns out that the dominant modern ideal of autonomy cannot do without a costly metaphysics if it is to be coherent.