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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Against autonomy
    sub title: justifying coercive paternalism
  name:
    name part: Conly, Sarah.
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: viii, 206 p.
  abstract: "Since Mill's seminal work On Liberty, philosophers and political theorists have accepted that we should respect the decisions of individual agents when those decisions affect no one other than themselves. Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to bear witness to the intrinsic value of persons. In this book, Sarah Conly rejects the idea of autonomy as inviolable. Drawing on sources from behavioural economics and social psychology, she argues that we are so often irrational in making our decisions that our autonomous choices often undercut the achievement of our own goals. Thus in many cases it would advance our goals more effectively if government were to prevent us from acting in accordance with our decisions. Her argument challenges widely held views of moral agency, democratic values and the public/private distinction, and will interest readers in ethics, political philosophy, political theory and philosophy of law"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Why value autonomy?; 2. Individuality; 3. Alienation, authenticity, and affect; 4. Misuse and abuse: perfectionism and preferences; 5. Misuse and abuse: punishment and privacy; 6. Applications; 7. Final justifications.
  note: by Sarah Conly.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Paternalism
  subject:
    topic: Autonomy (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Choice (Psychology)
  classification: JA71 .C575 2013eb
  classification: 320.01
  identifier: 9781107024847 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781139845076 (e-book)
  identifier: 2012021094
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 120522
    record identifier: ebr10628061