Political liberalism and the value of autonomy
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First of all, let us focus on Colburn’s notion of autonomy and his modified claim (3a). Colburn holds that there are two different notions of autonomy in the literature, one taking autonomy as a first-order and the other taking it as a second-order value. The former outlines autonomy as an ideal of a particular way of life, such as the Socratic ideal of a thoroughly self-reflective life. In contrast, second-order conceptions of autonomy do not specify any particular way of life for an individual to lead in order to be autonomous. Rather, they suggest that autonomy “is a value which consists in an agent deciding for herself what is a valuable
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