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1. Introduction: The Autonomy Problem

One important idea in the eighteenth-century intellectual movement we like to call Enlightenment was that all humans have equal dignity by virtue of their autonomous agency. (1) In Immanuel Kant's representative formulation, to be an autonomous agent is to act on reasons you give yourself, as opposed to being the vehicle for some other force--your body's urges, say, like an addict, or the will of someone else, like a slave. The idea is attractive, but one serious problem facing Enlightenment thinkers--at least them; perhaps us, ...

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