(Sprigge 2006, ch.9) Against the idea that God is some type of all-embracing spirit or person it is often complained that this would undermine the autonomous personhood of finite individuals; for can one person be part of another?
Here Stefano Bonino, an academic, argued in defence of Lambert, writing :"In short, the campaigners make a weakly argued moral case, but fail to make a robust legal or a pragmatic case, and in such circumstances, dismissing Lambert would seriously undermine the credibility of any autonomous institution.
Habermas argues that parents who genetically enhance their children will, through the control they exert, prevent their children from entering relationships of moral equality and undermine their ability to be autonomous (Habermas 2003).
It is noteworthy that only one participant stressed the fact that autonomy could be impaired by mental illness and thus might undermine patients' ability to take autonomous reproductive decisions.
Turkey, too wants to "use" the war on ISIS, but the Turkish immediate objective is not to weaken ISIS, but rather to help ISIS undermine the Syrian Kurdish semi-autonomous region that lies adjacent to Turkey's own restless (and far from autonomous) Kurds.
First, on one plausible reading of the Kantian maxim, one treats another as a mere means only when one treats "him in a way to which he could not possibly consent," as in cases of coercion and fraud, where A seeks to undermine B's capacity as an autonomous decision-maker.
However, as this analysis suggestions, it is important to ensure that by including men, we don't undermine women's ability to make autonomous decisions about whether to discuss microbicides with their partners and to employ creative strategies regarding how to discuss them.
These are also the same people who insist women are worth 25% less than men and are laboring to undermine the ability of American women to make autonomous health care decisions.
This year's autonomous surge for democracy in Egypt and Tunisia has done far more to galvanise the region and undermine its dictatorships than anything the US did in Iraq.
