Publications
The Metaphysics of Autonomy
- Author(s)
- Mark Coeckelbergh
- Abstract
If we want to be autonomous, what do we want? The author shows that contemporary value-neutral and metaphysically economical conceptions of autonomy, such as that of Harry Frankfurt, face a serious problem. Drawing on Plato, Augustine, and Kant, this book provides a sketch of how 'ancient' and 'modern' can be reconciled to solve it. But at what expense? It turns out that the dominant modern ideal of autonomy cannot do without a costly metaphysics if it is to be coherent.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Philosophy
- No. of pages
- 232
- Publication date
- 2004
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603102 Epistemology, 603110 Metaphysics, 603103 Ethics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/the-metaphysics-of-autonomy(598780a4-64c6-4370-8657-312e38030d59).html