Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Sources and acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Servility and self-respect
- 2 Self-respect reconsidered
- 3 Autonomy and benevolent lies
- 4 The importance of autonomy
- 5 Symbolic protest and calculated silence
- 6 Moral purity and the lesser evil
- 7 Self-regarding suicide: a modified Kantian view
- 8 Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments
- 9 Weakness of will and character
- 10 Promises to oneself
- 11 Social snobbery and human dignity
- 12 Pains and projects: justifying to oneself
- 13 The message of affirmative action
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Sources and acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Servility and self-respect
- 2 Self-respect reconsidered
- 3 Autonomy and benevolent lies
- 4 The importance of autonomy
- 5 Symbolic protest and calculated silence
- 6 Moral purity and the lesser evil
- 7 Self-regarding suicide: a modified Kantian view
- 8 Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments
- 9 Weakness of will and character
- 10 Promises to oneself
- 11 Social snobbery and human dignity
- 12 Pains and projects: justifying to oneself
- 13 The message of affirmative action
- Index
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- Autonomy and Self-Respect , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991