{"title":"The conditional value of autonomy","authors":"Victor Tadros","doi":"10.1111/phpr.70023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the conditional value of autonomy. It is valuable for a person to have acted autonomously, but only conditionally on the act performed. It is good for a person autonomously to pursue a noble deed, for example, and bad for a person autonomously to kill without justification. This paper rejects two familiar views of the conditional value of autonomy – that it is always worse for a person to autonomously do what is wrong; and that it is always better for a person autonomously to comply with duty. In doing so, it clarifies the fact that value can play different roles in personal axiology and in deontology.","PeriodicalId":48136,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.70023","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper is concerned with the conditional value of autonomy. It is valuable for a person to have acted autonomously, but only conditionally on the act performed. It is good for a person autonomously to pursue a noble deed, for example, and bad for a person autonomously to kill without justification. This paper rejects two familiar views of the conditional value of autonomy – that it is always worse for a person to autonomously do what is wrong; and that it is always better for a person autonomously to comply with duty. In doing so, it clarifies the fact that value can play different roles in personal axiology and in deontology.
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research publishes articles in a wide range of areas including philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophical history of philosophy. No specific methodology or philosophical orientation is required for submissions.