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Title: Paul Formosa
Moral Autonomy as Personal Autonomy: A Kantian Account of Agency
A strong distinction is often made between personal autonomy and moral
autonomy, with the latter closely associated with Kant. Personal autonomy
has to do with governing yourself in the pursuit of your conception of the
good. Moral autonomy has to do with laying down the moral law for yourself
and acting from a sense of duty. Viewed in this way moral autonomy seems at
best marginal to, and at worst intrusive upon, the exercise of personal
autonomy. In this paper I shall reject this sharp contrast between personal
and moral autonomy by defending a Kantian account of autonomy and agency.
On this view autonomy amounts to willing an end on condition that one’s
willing it can, in itself, have normative authority for us because I willed
it. But what I will to do can’t have normative authority for us if what I
will is incompatible with the dignity of other autonomous agents. Drawing
on this account I will show why the pursuit of one’s own happiness and the
governing of oneself in terms of what one cares most about are in fact
essential components of Kantian autonomy. The upshot of this argument will
be a unified account of personal and moral autonomy that avoids making
morality seem alienated from, rather than constitutive of, our everyday
practices of self-government.
When: Mon Apr 19 1pm – 2:30pm Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: University of Sydney philosophy common room
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