Download or read book Personal Autonomy in Society written by Marina Oshana and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging many of the currently accepted conceptions of autonomy and of how it is valued, Oshana develops a social-relational account of autonomy that is constituted by a person's relations with others and by the absence of certain social relations. She denies that command over one's motives and the freedom to realize one's will are sufficient to secure the kind of command over one's life that autonomy requires, and argues against psychological, procedural, and content neutral accounts of autonomy.