Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

To Be the Owner of My Own Person: Toward a Concept of Freedom as Heteronomy Without Servitude

Visiting Scholars

February 28, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Vladimir Safatle
Professor and Director of Research, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Today autonomy, defined as self-legislation and self-determination, appears to be a precondition of freedom. Autonomy is widely accepted as the normative horizon of claims for social emancipation and psychological maturity. Nevertheless, this understanding of autonomy depends on a fundamental metaphysical presupposition that must be submitted to criticism. This presupposition follows from the belief that the […]

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