From unimpeachable autonomy to self-imposed heteronomy: a liberal and Foucauldian perspective on advance euthanasia directives

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00941-4" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41599-021-00941-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From unimpeachable autonomy to self-imposed heteronomy: a liberal and Foucauldian perspective on advance euthanasia directives

Original language description

Based on a controversial case of assisted suicide offered to and eventually enforced on ademented woman vainly resisting the procedure, this article discusses the problems thatarise when the human entity is conceptualized as an individual primarily defined by his abilityfor rational self-expression and autonomous self-rule. To highlight these difficulties, a liberalview on&apos;autonomy&apos;-a term which serves as anidealbut is yet subject toconditions-isscrutinized. Given that liberal political theory alone is insufficient to fully reflect the changesof personality by which an individual&apos;sfight for autonomy bears the potential to turn intounalterable heteronomy, it is complemented by the thought of Michel Foucault. With hisattention to societal mechanisms which bring individuals about-a process termed&apos;indivi-duation&apos;in the following-cases like the aforementioned scenario wherein individuals areforced to divide themselves from themselves can be critically analyzed. Such an approachillustrates that the established notion of the&apos;individual&apos;can be led ad absurdum, and itsvalidity as both an analytical idea and a normative vision should be challenged.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Humanities &amp; social sciences communications [online]

ISSN

2662-9992

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

000714351500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85118526512