Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy : Personal Autonomy in Ethics and Bioethics

• Autore: Childress James F
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: QuanteMichael
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: What Moral Responsibility is Not -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Frankfurt -- 1.3 Other Theorists: Taylor, Watson, and Velleman -- 1.3.1 Taylor -- 1.3.2 Watson -- 1.3.3 Velleman and Bratman -- 1.4 Conclusion: What Moral Responsibility is Not -- References -- Chapter 2: The Passivity of Self-Satisfaction: A Critical Re-appraisal of Harry Frankfurt's Normatively Thin Ontology of Autonomy -- 2.1 Re-booting the Debate Over Second-Order Desires -- 2.2 The Problem Our Desires Pose -- 2.3 Passive Failures to Face the Predicament of Volitional Reflexivity -- 2.4 Facing the Predicament and Resolving One's Will: Structural Hierarchicalism of the Will -- 2.5 How Critical Must Volitional Reflexivity Be? -- 2.6 Self-Opacity and the Importance of Understanding What We Care About -- 2.7 Frankfurt's Hermeneutically Impoverished Ontology of the Will -- 2.8 The Costs of Frankfurt's Commitments to Thinness -- References -- Chapter 3: Determining Oneself and Determining One's Self -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Self-Actualisation and Self-Formation -- 3.3 Self-Identification: Harry Frankfurt's Theory of Voluntarist Self-Actualisation -- 3.4 Self-Realisation: Thomas Hill Green's Ideal of Perfectionist Self-Formation -- 3.5 Self-Development: John Stuart Mill's Conception of Perfectionist Self-Actualisation -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Self-Confidence, Self-Assertiveness, and Self-Esteem: The Triple S Condition of Personal Autonomy -- 4.1 The Standard Model for Autonomous Action -- 4.2 Affirmation, Position, Evaluation -- 4.3 The Genesis of Autonomy -- 4.4 The Vulnerability of Autonomy -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Autonomy, Respect, and Joint Deliberation -- 5.1 Autonomy, Respect, and Joint Deliberation -- 5.2 The General Contours of Autonomy -- 5.3 The Liberal Sensibility -- 5.4 Partnerships. ; 5.5 The Challenge for the Liberal Sensibility -- References -- Chapter 6: Autonomy and Beliefs -- 6.1 Autonomous and Nonautonomous Actions: Setting Things Up -- 6.2 Sorting Through Cases -- References -- Chapter 7: How Much Understanding Is Needed for Autonomy? -- 7.1 Autonomy and Informed Consent -- 7.2 Defending the Thin View of How Much Understanding is Needed for Autonomy -- 7.2.1 The Objection from the Best Intensional Description -- 7.2.2 Agency, Autonomy, and Understanding -- 7.2.3 Maclean's Objections -- 7.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Is "Autonomy Talk" Misleading? -- 8.1 A Functional Approach -- 8.2 'Thick' Concepts of Autonomy as Concepts of the Good Life -- 8.3 The Good and the Right -- 8.4 Ideal and Threshold Concepts of Autonomy: Equality and Inclusion -- 8.5 Interrelations and Disruptions -- 8.6 The Form of Autonomy Rights -- References -- Chapter 9: Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective? -- 9.1 Crisis of Autonomy and Respect for Autonomy in Bioethics -- 9.2 The Principle of Respect for Autonomy (PRA) -- 9.3 Complexities in Respecting Autonomous Choices: A Difficult Case -- 9.3.1 Case: Death of 14-Year-Old Jehovah's Witness -- 9.3.2 Steps in Respecting Autonomous Choices -- 9.4 Relational Autonomy: A Thicker, Richer Conception -- 9.4.1 Components of Relational Autonomy -- 9.4.2 Relationally Responsible Choices: A Necessary Condition of Autonomy? -- 9.4.3 Respect for an Individual's Social-Cultural Beliefs and Values -- 9.4.4 Respect for Temporally Extended Selves -- 9.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Patients' Decision-Making Competence: Discontents with a Risk-Relative Conception -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Decision-Making Competence: Preliminary Aspects -- 10.2.1 A Precondition for Valid Authorization -- 10.2.2 A Set of Abilities -- 10.2.3 Competence and Rationality. ; 10.2.4 Task-Specificity -- 10.2.5 The Idea of a Risk-Related Concept of Competence -- 10.3 Arguments from Conceptual Grammar -- 10.3.1 Externalism and Normativity -- 10.3.2 Asymmetrical Risk-Related Competences? -- 10.3.3 Asymmetrical Decisional Competences? -- 10.4 Arguments from the Task at Stake -- 10.4.1 Making Treatment Preferences Decisive -- 10.4.2 The Ordinary-Person Standard -- 10.4.3 Complex Versus Risky Decisions -- 10.5 Arguments from Protection -- 10.5.1 Fallibilism: Raising Standards of Evidence or of Substance? -- 10.5.2 Over-Exclusiveness: Hidden Paternalism -- 10.5.3 Over-Inclusiveness: Devaluating Authorization -- 10.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: Vulnerability, Exploitation and Autonomy -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Vulnerability and Corrosive Disadvantage -- 11.3 Exploitation and Injustice -- 11.4 Autonomy and Paternalism -- 11.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Outlook -- 12.1 Other Philosophical Traditions -- 12.2 Changing Environments -- 12.3 Intra- and Interdisciplinary Contexts -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy
• ISBN: 9783030809911; 9783030809904
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910510536303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophical Studies Ser.