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Document Details : Title: Introduction Author(s): BURMS, Arnold Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 2 Issue: 4 Date: December 1995 Pages: 163-164 DOI: 10.2143/EP.2.4.563050 Abstract : Influential contemporary thinkers have declared that the belief in individual autonomy rests on an illusion. They have argued that our subjectivity is shaped by the language we speak and the traditions to which we belong. One should not, however, overestimate the impact of these theoretical criticisms. The idea of individual autonomy is part of a larger pattern of belief which has not ceased to exert its influence on our habits of thinking and behaving. |
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