notion of autonomy

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Many of these ethical objections, rather surprisingly, appealed to notions of autonomy.
Tronto argues that current individualistic notions of autonomy as independence places autonomy and dependence at either end of a continuum.
Nineteenth-century autobiography, as the preeminent exemplar of an individualist ideology that privileged individual self-possession over the communal, records most graphically the masculine libidinal investment in notions of autonomy.
Unbelievable poverty, inter-clan fighting and ethnic tensions, compounded by corruption at all levels in regions entertaining vague notions of autonomy and partition are its overriding features.
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