But the word 'autonomy' means self-legislation.
The appeal to self-legislation does not make the moral law coincide with the arbitrary decisions of particular agents.
If ethics means rationalist self-legislation and freedom (deontology), the calculation of happiness (utilitarianism), or the cultivation of virtues (virtue ethics), then Levinas's philosophy is not an ethics.
However, in order for him to fully adopt this last characteristic of the international system, he will have to rethink his conception of democracy as self-legislation.
Like Kant, Korsgaard thinks that the appropriate form of self-governance is self-legislation (Korsgaard 1996a, 36, 91, 231 232; Korsgaard 2008, 3).
Her hope is to motivate people to act otherwise and to treat them as capable of self-legislation rather than mere products of social conditioning.
His transcendental and philosophical reflections on autonomy and self-legislation lead to a recognition of the same freedom for all rational beings as the sole principle of human rights (Kant 1797, p. 230).
Highlights from it included the leadership of Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, joining Barcelona in a 40-year countdown to urban self-sufficiency; legislation in Congress to charter a National Fab Lab Network; and a pop-up lab that followed at the U.N. General Assembly.
In this way, lawmakers are subject to the same laws and so have an incentive to avoid self-interested legislation and to frame it in general terms that will be equally applicable to all.
It is about the rule of law, which the City Council violated by passing this self-serving legislation to extend the terms of its members and thwarting the will of the people, expressed twice at the ballot box.
Modern administrative tribunals are the outgrowth of conditions for different from those. 3 To a large degree they have been a response to the felt need of governmental supervision over economic enterprisea supervision which could effectively be exercised neither directly through self-executing legislation nor by the judicial process.
