PERSONAL AUTONOMY AND REFLECTION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE IDEAS OF HARRY FRANKFURT AND GERALD DWORKIN
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Personal Autonomy, Gerald Dworkin, Harry Frankfurt, political liberalism, liberal perfectionism.Abstract
I argue against a conception of personal autonomy focused on identification between desires of first and second order - here called empirical conception of second order preferences - and for a conception centered on the idea of reflection - the normative conception of second order preferences. Both, I assert, are possible readings of the theses about personal autonomy asserted by Harry Frankfurt and Gerald Dworkin. Because of its link with the empirical conception I reject here a radical liberalism involving the state's obligation to respect any self-regarding life plan preferred by the agent. By virtue of its connection to the normative conception I suggest, on the contrary, the feasibility of a liberal perfectionism such that the value of personal autonomy justifies state intervention in the life plans that jeopardize it.
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