The Biological Constraints on Autonomy and Political Liberty
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The subject of the present work is autonomy, a cornerstone property of moral agency. The concept is traditionally understood to mean self-governing, but rarely do philosophers mean only that. Most now expect that if we are to tell a story of our moral development, we cannot rest content with a story told in non-naturalistic terms. We must dig deeper. But if we happen to succeed in leaving the non-naturalistic behind, in formulating hypotheses in exclusively naturalistic terms, won’t we be abandoning the very thing we sought to explain, viz., our normative nature?
