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Vol. 55 No. 6 (2006)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2006.337
Il principio di autonomia. Prospettive di una ricostruzione non orientata in senso eutanasico
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Wishing to synthesize the matter to which the principle of autonomy offers answer, it could be said that it concerns to the recognition of the other. In other words and Hanna Arendt paraphrasing, the underlying question is if we are some who or some what. In this sense, declaring the autonomy of every human subject means that it is important to fix that it is not possible to treat such subject as a thing. It follows that the possibility of a practical definition of what it has to be considered evil: we have evil when a human individual is not considered like an interlocutor, as a you, but, as a thing, in other words (only) as a body, that is the same when he is reduced to a tool or to a (passive) object of a manipulation. Making decisions according to conscience, operating responsible ethical choices, it is proper of the human nature: it derives that establishing relationships with a human individual can't be considered as an addressing to his being as a moral subject, or to his ability of discernment, or otherwise to his moral being. The affirmation of the principle of autonomy implicates, therefore, one precise ethical option, if not even the fundamental intuition of the whole history of the ethics: the one that, recognizing in the other, a moral subject involves the renouncement to make it an instrument and opens the way to the relationships. Therefore, if the principle of autonomy says that we can't reduce subject to a thing, it's the same for the relationship that everyone has with himself. Its follows that the principle of autonomy, although people often say the contrary, doesn't justify the choice of the single one to cancel his existence, that is his being a moral subject. Yet, it doesn't implicate to affirm the absence of limits in the therapeutic intervention.
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Il principio di autonomia. Prospettive di una ricostruzione non orientata in senso eutanasico. (2006). Medicina E Morale, 55(6). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2006.337
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