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Nondomination and the Limits of Relational Autonomy
- IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 13, Number 2, Fall 2020
- pp. 28-48
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Abstract:
Relational autonomy theorists attempt to accommodate social embeddedness within a conception of autonomy. These attempts are conceptually messy, at best, and category errors, at worst. Rejecting the liberal conception of autonomy due to feminist concerns is more helpfully answered by the neorepublican notion of freedom as nondomination. The conception of freedom as nondomination captures the values that motivate the relational turn in moral and political theory and does so in a conceptually neater way than attempting to accommodate those concerns in our accounts of autonomy.