Autonomy, ethical

References and further reading

	Christman, J. (1989) The Inner Citadel: Essays on Individual Autonomy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (A collection of contemporary essays. Good introduction to contemporary discussions of personal autonomy, with an extensive bibliography.)
	Dworkin, G. (1988) The Theory and Practice of Autonomy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Accessible treatment of the nature and value of autonomy.)
	Feinberg, J. (1986) ‘Autonomy’, in Harm to Self, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ch. 18; repr. in J. Christman (ed.) The Inner Citadel: Essays on Individual Autonomy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. (A clear analysis of different meanings of autonomy.)
	Frankfurt, H. (1988) The Importance of What We Care About, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Contains influential essays on freedom of the will of importance to the nature of personal autonomy.)
	Hill, T.E., Jr (1991) Autonomy and Self-Respect, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chaps 3, 4, 7. (Develops an accessible account of autonomy and of its normative significance.)
	Hill, T.E., Jr (1992) Dignity and Self-Respect, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, chaps 1, 5–7. (Develops an accessible account of Kant’s views about autonomy.)
	Kant, I. (1785) Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, in Kants gesammelte Schriften, ed. Königlichen Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin: Reimer, vol. 4, 1903; trans. J.W. Ellington, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals , Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993. (References made to this work in the entry give the page number from the 1903 Berlin Akademie volume; these page numbers are included in the Ellington translation. A classic work of moral theory which bases morality on autonomy.)
	Korsgaard, C. (1996) Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Essays on Kant’s moral theory and on contemporary moral theory relevant to several aspects of autonomy.)
	Locke, J. (1690) ‘The Second Treatise of Government’, in Two Treatises on Government, ed. P. Laslett, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 269–278, 323–333. (Classic social contract theory which bases the legitimacy of political authority on the consent of citizens.)
	Mill, J.S. (1859) On Liberty, ed. E. Rappaport, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978, esp. 53–71. (Classic account of individual civil liberties developed within a utilitarian framework.)
	Nagel, T. (1970) The Possibility of Altruism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Develops a contemporary Kantian view of motivation.)
	Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Seminal contemporary work arguing that principles of justice can be viewed as the result of an autonomous choice of free and equal persons.)
	Rawls, J. (1975) ‘The Independence of Moral Theory’, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 48: 5–22. (Argues for the independence of moral theory from other areas of philosophy.)
	Rawls, J. (1993) Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press, paperback edition with new material, 1996. (Lecture II discusses the role of autonomy in the theory of justice.)
	Reath, A. (1994) ‘Legislating the Moral Law’, Nous 28: 435–464. (Scholarly account of Kant’s concept of autonomy.)
	Rousseau, J.-J. (1762) Du Contrat social, trans. J.R. Masters, ed. R.D. Masters, On the Social Contract, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1978. (Classic social contract theory that gives a central role to the notions of autonomy and self-legislation.)
	Scanlon, T.M. (1972) ‘A Theory of Freedom of Expression’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1: 204–206. (Develops a theory of free expression based on a conception of autonomy.)
	Schneewind, J.B. (1986) ‘The Use of Autonomy in Ethical Theory’, in T.C. Heller, M. Sosna and D.E. Wellberry (eds) Reconstructing Individualism, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 64–75. (Discussion of autonomy in Butler, Kant and Rawls.)
	Schneewind, J.B. (1991) ‘Natural Law, Skepticism and Methods of Ethics’, Journal of the History of Ideas 52: 289–308. (Shows how eighteenth-century empiricist moral theories developed a morality of autonomy that dispenses with the need for moral authorities of various sorts.)
	Schneewind, J.B. (1993) ‘Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End?’, in P. Cook (ed.) Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Accessible overview of the history of early modern ethics, stressing the emergence of autonomy as a central notion.)