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PART III The Autonomy Stance Loyalty to Freedom In the autonomy stance, ethicists are freedomlovers first of all. They resist especially the rule-bound ethics of the historical figures examined in Part IV. Similar in some ways to the egoistic ethicists described in Part II, the thinkers in Part III place a high value on freely determined ethical choices, even when it means choosing to be a social nonconformist. For John Locke, freedom was a natural right that societies should protect and promote at all costs. Henry David Thoreau did not believe in irresponsible freedom, but insisted on liberty from undue government restraints. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from a deep commitment to his own integrity, refused to compromise with political authorities. For Hannah Arendt also, ethics requires maximum freedom, and Paulo Freire promotes emancipation from the oppressors who restrain ordinary human beings within a culture of silence. ...

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