The phrase "exercise of autonomy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing personal freedom, decision-making, or self-governance.
Example: "The exercise of autonomy is essential for individuals to make choices that reflect their values and beliefs."
Alternatives: "assertion of independence" or "practice of self-determination."
Those types, his obstinate scriveners, complicate the idea that intrinsic motivation and a rigorous exercise of autonomy necessarily lead to larger social improvement.
For example, John Harris, professor of bioethics at Manchester University, who supports assisted suicide, has said: 'It is only by the exercise of autonomy that our lives become in any real sense our own.
If so, the connection that Rawls attempts to forge between the exercise of autonomy and public reason is too tight.
The powerfully negative meanings evoked by the prevailing conceptualization of disability may overwhelm both the equality of opportunity and the moral respect that disabled people's exercise of autonomy or independence should command.
On procedural accounts, false stereotypes that have been internalized by the agent may well be the agent's own because they may be the products of reflective endorsement or the exercise of autonomy competency.
In another sense, because of the role of self-nurturing and self-respect without which the exercise of autonomy competency would not be possible, Meyers's account could be said to have "weak normative substance" and hence be weakly substantive (Benson 2005).
However, such rights are expressions of freedom only if citizens can also understand themselves as the authors of the laws that interpret their rights that is, only if the laws that protect private autonomy also issue from citizens' exercise of public autonomy as lawmakers acting through elected representatives.
The proper bounds of the exercise of personal autonomy and the proper restrictions of the entitlement to privacy are constitutional matters, not things to be decided by popular vote.
Knowing that some readers here have announced that they want to end their lives if (or before) they are suffering, seeing that as an exercise of personal autonomy rather than mental illness, I asked both experts if they thought suicide could ever be a rational act.
A second set of objections to the unburdened exercise of procreative autonomy is anti-natalist.
The exercise of public autonomy in its full sense presupposes participants who understand themselves as individually free (privately autonomous), which in turn presupposes that they can shape their individual freedoms through the exercise of public autonomy.
