"All of them promised to affirm our autonomy and authority," Dr. Gregorian said.
Some affirm procreative autonomy, but regard it as compatible with apparently coercive population policies such as limitations on the number of children particular persons may have.
With them, we affirm the autonomy of the university as a non-militarized space for freedom of thought and expression.
The gesture nicely epitomizes the project of the Convivio, a vernacular discourse which defines for its lay audience the limits of political and scholastic authority, and affirms the autonomy and potential dignity of individual human reason.
Dante was surely aware also of a "radical" Aristotelianism centered in Bologna, where masters influenced by Siger of Brabant and Boethius of Dacia were affirming the autonomy of human reason and its capacity to attain happiness through its own powers [Corti (1981), 9 31; Vanni Rovighi].
"Christ, on one hand, affirmed the healthy autonomy of the worldly from the spiritual," Cardinal Rivera said during his sermon to the politicians, gathered in the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The violent conflicts within are not repressed but neutralized and pacified in the reality of intersubjective life that affirms and recognizes autonomy.
Their support was rewarded with a charter affirming Jewish religious autonomy, including barring foreigners and impure animals from the Temple's precincts, and an allocation of official funds for the maintenance of certain religious rituals in the Temple.
Otherwise, citizens with deeply conflicting worldviews could not be expected to affirm the value of autonomy except as a mere modus vivendi (see, e.g., Wall 2009; cf. also Larmore 2008, 146 6).
One such argument affirms the importance of autonomy, but argues that there are certain acts that autonomous choosers should never choose.
