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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Childress, James F.,
• Quante, Michael,

Titel

Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy : Personal Autonomy in Ethics and Bioethics [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2022

Ort / Verlag

Cham : Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

• SpringerLink Books - AutoHoldings

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Preface (James F. Childress and Michael Quante) -- Chapter 1. What Moral Responsibility is Not (John Martin Fischer) -- Chapter 2. The Passivity of Self-Satisfaction: A Critical Re-Appraisal of Harry Frankfurt’s Normatively Thin Ontology of Autonomy (Joel Anderson) -- Chapter 3. Determining Oneself and Determining One's Self (Thomas Schramme) -- Chapter 4. Self-Confidence, Self-Assertiveness, and Self-Esteem: The Triple S Condition of Personal Autonomy (Johann S. Ach and Arnd Pollmann) -- Chapter 5. Autonomy, Respect, and Joint Deliberation (John Christman) -- Chapter 6. Autonomy and Beliefs (Alfred R. Mele) -- Chapter 7. How Much Understanding is Needed for Autonomy? (James Stacey Taylor) -- Chapter 8. Is “Autonomy Talk” Misleading? (Thomas Gutmann) -- Chapter 9. Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective? (James F. Childress) -- Chapter 10. Patients’ Decision-Making Competence: Discontents with a Risk-Relative Conception (Bettina Schöne-Seifert) -- Chapter 11. Vulnerability, Exploitation, and Autonomy (Catriona Mackenzie) -- Chapter 12. Outlook (James F. Childress and Michael Quante) -- Index.
• This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of “thick” (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics. Many standard ethical theories and practices, particularly in domains such as biomedical ethics, incorporate minimal, formal, procedural concepts of personal autonomy and autonomous decisions and actions. Over the last three decades, concerns about the problems and limitations of these “thin” concepts have led to the formulation of “thick” concepts that highlight the mental, corporeal, biographical and social conditions of what it means to be a human person and that enrich concepts of autonomy, with direct implications for the ethical requirement to respect autonomy. The chapters in this book offer a wide range of perspectives on both the elements of and the relations (both positive and negative) between “thin” and “thick” concepts of autonomy as well as their relative roles and importance in ethics and bioethics. This book offers valuable and illuminating examinations of autonomy and respect for autonomy, relevant for audiences in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.