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  1. 1. Children's right to privacy online : Between autonomy and protection

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Jennie Vajda; [2023]
    Keywords : children s rights and autonomy; digital environment; paternalism; applied ethics;

    Abstract : This study examines the ethical balance of children’s autonomy and parents’ responsibility to protect in relation to the digital environment. The balance also relates to the right to privacy which can be limited with the intention to protect the child, but the child’s evolving capacities and autonomy is to be taken into consideration. READ MORE

  3. 2. Autonomy and Relational Cognition : Autonomy From a Cognitive Science Perspective

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Niklas Carlsson; [2020]
    Keywords : relational autonomy; the social self thesis; embodied cognition; embedded cognition; predictive processing;

    Abstract : I argue that autonomy is substantially relational by appealing to a variety of findings from the cognitive sciences. I gather findings related to a variety of paradigms of the cognitive sciences under the collective banner Relational Cognition and argue that these speak in favor of contingent relational accounts of autonomy by demonstrating the relational nature of cognition and agency. READ MORE

  4. 3. Legitimate legal authority and the obligation to obey : An analysis of Joseph Raz´s arguments on legitimate authority

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Etik

    Author : Emma Molin; [2017]
    Keywords : Philosophy of law; Joseph Raz; Obligation to obey; authority; obedience; compliance; the service conception;

    Abstract : Two central issues in literature discussing legal authority seems to the the questions of what the law has when it has authority and under what conditions the law can be said to have authority. This thesis analyses an answer to these two questions as it has been developed by legal philosopher Joseph Raz. READ MORE

  5. 4. What is Wrong Between Us? : On the problem of circularity in Scanlon's contractualism

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Jesper Ahlin; [2013]
    Keywords : Contractualism; Scanlon; circularity; moral pluralism;

    Abstract : In this essay, the Scanlonian contractualist formula will be understood as follows: Within the domain of morality of what we owe to each other, an action is morally wrong if it follows principles that similarly motivated people can reasonably reject. Consequently, the concept of ‘reasonable rejection’ is the operative element in moral valuation, thus begging the question of what it is for a rejection to be reasonable. READ MORE