caa a22 4500 386365466 CHVBK 20180307111931.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300015997 doi S0012217300015997 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300015997 Kapur Neera Badhwar University of Oklahoma Autonomy, Liberty, and Utility [Elektronische Daten] [Neera Badhwar Kapur] Lawrence Haworth's book, Autonomy, discusses "Autonomy as a Psychological Idea”, and "Autonomy as a Normative Idea”. Part 1 discusses autonomy in relation to rationality, agency, and responsibility, defends it against Skinnerian sceptics, and outlines a theory of autonomous decision-making and the autonomous task environment. Haworth's conception of autonomy integrates and builds on the concepts of S. I. Benn, G. Dworkin, H. Frankfurt, and R. W. White. Part 2 centres on social/political theory, and not, despite the book's subtitle, on ethics as such. Haworth argues that only autonomy, and not liberty or happiness, is an intrinsic (non-moral) value, and fundamental right. His "autonomist” theory of liberty rights, a form of revisionary liberalism derived from the later idealists, is opposed to the classical liberal/libertarian theory. The arguments prompt a re-examination of the role of autonomy in the arguments for liberty (and happiness), but do not, in my view, make a persuasive case for "autonomism” against classical liberalism (hereafter liberalism). The book is chiefly noteworthy for its success in covering many important topics connected with autonomy, in an impressively short space, and in an always clear and often very insightful way. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/3(1989), 487-498 0012-2173 28:3<487 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015997 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015997 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kapur Neera Badhwar University of Oklahoma NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/3(1989), 487-498 0012-2173 28:3<487 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge