Sentence examples for autonomous persons from inspiring English sources

To the extent we risk the loss of privacy we risk, in a very real sense, the loss of our very status as subjective, autonomous persons.

In particular, recall that many bioethicists ground informed consent in duties to treat rational, autonomous persons respectfully.

Addicted smokers for example are autonomous persons in a general sense but (for some) helplessly unable to control their behavior regarding this one activity (Christman 1989, 13 14).

One way of explicating Beauvoir's suggestion is that once we look at the conditions for subjecthood, we see that there is an opposite to being a subject: subjects are, for example, free and autonomous persons, and the opposite of a free and autonomous person is someone unfree, in her terms, someone condemned to immanence.

In order for this to operate effectively, he argues that the social system must be such that power is distributed across a society of highly autonomous persons.

A second group of Autonomous persons, without functional dependency in spite of their illness, could perform activities of daily living (ADLs) without surveillance, were generally employed; and had a shorter course of illness than other groups.

By doing so, you honor his right to be an autonomous person.

It is intimately connected to what it is to be an autonomous person.

But the concept of an autonomous person has an additional role.

We start with Anastasia coming into his world and grappling with it – so she's an autonomous person".

It's not that I need everybody to like me, but I'm a very autonomous person when I work.