TY - CHAP
T1 - Could Friends of Relational Autonomy be Relational Sufficientarians Rather than Relational Egalitarians?
AU - Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - This chapter explores the connection between relational autonomy and the relational ideal of justice. Specifically, it assesses the claim (henceforth: the strong connection claim) that relational autonomy presupposes realization of the egalitarian relational ideal of justice in relation to three different relational accounts of autonomy: the historic-, the externalist-, and the content-focused relational accounts. The latter two offer a prima facie reason to accept the strong connection claim. However, this prima facie reason is defeated first, because, intuitively, people who relate as sufficients, but not as equals, could be autonomous and second, because, unlike sufficiency, equality is a comparative notion and one individual’s status as autonomous cannot depend constitutively on the opportunities available to other agents as such. While relational autonomy does not require specifically the satisfaction of the relational egalitarian ideal, it might require the satisfaction of some relational ideal or other; to wit, either relational sufficiency or relational equality.
AB - This chapter explores the connection between relational autonomy and the relational ideal of justice. Specifically, it assesses the claim (henceforth: the strong connection claim) that relational autonomy presupposes realization of the egalitarian relational ideal of justice in relation to three different relational accounts of autonomy: the historic-, the externalist-, and the content-focused relational accounts. The latter two offer a prima facie reason to accept the strong connection claim. However, this prima facie reason is defeated first, because, intuitively, people who relate as sufficients, but not as equals, could be autonomous and second, because, unlike sufficiency, equality is a comparative notion and one individual’s status as autonomous cannot depend constitutively on the opportunities available to other agents as such. While relational autonomy does not require specifically the satisfaction of the relational egalitarian ideal, it might require the satisfaction of some relational ideal or other; to wit, either relational sufficiency or relational equality.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85129444565
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367416898
T3 - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
SP - 57
EP - 79
BT - Autonomy and Equality
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -