As an ethicist, she has a firm professional commitment to patient autonomy, the doctrine of "it's your body and you alone decide what happens to it".
Also central to Wolff's practical philosophy is its autonomy from theological doctrine.
Many in the region hail legal euthanasia as a victory for individual autonomy over church doctrine.
Why Writing Is Like Life: "…Mary McCarthy worked her way through various ideologies — adopting them, testing them, rejecting them, to arrive at a belief in — I quote — "the necessity for creative autonomy that transcends doctrine".
This view, though not lucidly expressed, suggests Siger's disregard for doctrines of the church and his emphasis on maintaining the autonomy of philosophy as a self-sufficient discipline.
"The Casey doctrine of autonomy and dignity is the key element of that dramatic arc -- which means Kennedy needs the Casey opinion to stay alive".
Since the ethical principle of respect for patient autonomy, on which the doctrine of informed consent is based, has become a central and foundational principle in modern Western health care, the implication of this challenge is troubling.
When Kant describes practical reason as a necessary law for all rational beings, whose actions are always to be judged according to maxims completely bound to the concept of the will of a rational being, one may see parallels to the Franciscan doctrine of the autonomy of the will.
Insofar as it rejects any sense of a transcendent external lawgiver or to put the matter more positively insofar as it regards deity as the distributed possession of all, pantheism may be represented as endorsing the Kantian doctrine of the autonomy of ethical judgement.
Any conception of autonomy that coheres with the doctrine of informed choice will incorporate a significant cognitive dimension, emphasizing the capacity to understand and appreciate the information at his or her disposal, the provision of information, and the voluntariness of the decision-making.
And would he apply his doctrine of strong local autonomy to the threat of terrorism as well?
