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(1981) The roots of ethics, Dordrecht, Springer.
There is a philosophical view about morality which is shared by moral philosophers as divergent as Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Royce, Hare, Popper, Sartre, and Wolff. It is a view of the moral agent as necessarily autonomous. It is this view that I wish to understand and evaluate in this essay. I speak of a view and not a thesis because the position involves not merely a conception of autonomy but connected views about the nature of moral principles, of moral epistemology, of rationality, and of responsibility.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-3303-6_3
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Dworkin, G. (1981)., Moral autonomy, in D. Callahan & T. Engelhardt (eds.), The roots of ethics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 29-44.