A brief Summary Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Privacy: Moral Ideals in the Constitution by Joel Feinburg’s
Historical and modern attempts to define, apply, and understand autonomy in terms of personal and national conception, capacity, condition, ideal, and right have fallen short for respective reasons due to the micro and macro intricacies and disjunct definitions of Autonomy. Considering Autonomy’s origination and etymology, ancient opinions and definitions regarding the dilemmic concept were associated with law creation & factional governance in Greece. This initiation related to “self-governance” has influenced and still influences the use of Autonomy and the understanding of sovereign rule since the Grecian era and in the contemporary geopolitical interactions. Autonomy as capacity can be viewed from two major perspectives. The judiciary viewpoint considers autonomy as capacity to be defined in terms of competency or lack-thereof. This binary definition is based on the activity that an individual or group is capable or not of participating in with… Read More »A brief Summary Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Privacy: Moral Ideals in the Constitution by Joel Feinburg’s