[lit-ideas] Re: Ethnic Pride, Black Truck Style

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:32:12 +0900

On 8/4/07, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Autonomous activities would be those activities which are, to the
> greatest degree possible, open and accessible to any person.  They
> are, in Kant's terms, public....  An activity is public when it could be
> shared in by any person and therefore not restricted by some outside
> authority.  The classic example is, of course, ethical deliberation.



Intriguing.

It seems to me the range of autonomous activities is severely limited
> and so I am not sure what to make of talk of an autonomous individual.
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Could it be an individual whose behavior is not restricted by some outside
authority, the ultimate monadic individual?
John


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