Communities need more than autonomy. (Individualism & Community: The Contested Terrain of Autonomy)

From: The Hastings Center Report | Date: May 1, 1994| Author: Murray, Thomas H. | Copyright information

The past twenty-five years have witnessed the transmutation of autonomy from a battle cry of the oppressed to a rallying cry for those who elevate certain kinds of moral commitments--those chosen voluntarily and competently--over all other moral concerns and values. The business contract becomes the supreme model of a sound moral relationship; informed consent, the esseential moral content of the physician-patient relationship. Loyalty, integrity, solidarity, and other such moral c...

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