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A Critique of Individual Autonomy as the Key to Personhood

Authors :
Norman J. Whitney
Source :
Transactional Analysis Journal. 12:210-212
Publication Year :
1982
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 1982.

Abstract

The use of individual autonomy as characterizing personhood is questioned. Two main elements in autonomy, namely (1) individual human rights and power and (2) independency are analyzed in relation ...

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Subjects :
Human rights
Personhood
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Environmental ethics
Education
Power (social and political)
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Key (cryptography)
Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)
Sociology
Relation (history of concept)
Social psychology
Autonomy
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ISSN :
23295244 and 03621537
Volume :
12
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Transactional Analysis Journal
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........8e661dc4f8ae6dc1a8d6a3401fa066e9
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/036215378201200310
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