Taking The Measure Of Autonomy

Author : Suzy Killmister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351792504
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking the Measure of Autonomy written by Suzy Killmister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a radically different approach to the concept of autonomy. Killmister defends a theory of autonomy that is four-dimensional and constituted by what she calls ‘self-definition,’ ‘self-realisation,’ ‘self-unification,’ and 'self-constitution.' While sufficiently complex to inform a full range of social applications, this four-dimensional theory is nonetheless unified through the simple idea that autonomy can be understood in terms of self-governance. The ‘self’ of self-governance occupies two distinct roles: the role of ‘personal identity’ and the role of ‘practical agency.’ In each of these roles, the self is responsible for both taking on, and then honouring, a wide range of commitments. One of the key benefits of this theory is that it provides a much richer measure not just of how autonomous an agent is, but also the shape—or degree—of her autonomy. Taking the Measure of Autonomy will be of keen interest to professional philosophers and students across social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and action theory who are working on autonomy.

Author : David Little
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781783098583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Learner Autonomy written by David Little and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines detailed accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. Points for discussion encourage readers to relate the argument of each chapter to their own context, and the book concludes with some reflections on teacher education.

Author : C. Everhard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414383
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessment and Autonomy in Language Learning written by C. Everhard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines this contested relationship between assessment and autonomy from a number of perspectives in a variety of Higher Education language-learning contexts in Europe and the Far East. The contributors to the book describe research into assessment both for and as autonomy, as well as approaches to the assessment of autonomy itself.

Author : Benoit Boutaud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1786308347
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Autonomy written by Benoit Boutaud and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy autonomy is an emerging concept that is, as yet, poorly identified in France. It can mean taking ownership of certain issues related to energy, its production, or, indeed, becoming self-sufficient, and it can apply equally to individuals, communities and buildings. While there are numerous new developments – renewable energies, smart grids and self-consumption – it is becoming difficult to know what this idea of “autonomy” covers, just as it is difficult to define “independence” and “self-sufficiency”, which are often associated with it. However, these three concepts are key to thinking about the energy system and deciding its future. Covering distinct ideas, they are often reduced to economic and productive factors. This ambiguity in their meanings is responsible for the misunderstandings, delusions and obstacles that hamper the implementation of the energy transition. This book deconstructs the common idea of autonomy in favor of a set of more operational concepts. It demonstrates that these ideas are not interchangeable but rather represent practical and constructive tools for action. The world of energy is changing, and therefore we must rethink energy autonomy.

Author : Daniel H. Pink
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101524383
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drive written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Author : Marina A.L. Oshana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135036098
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression written by Marina A.L. Oshana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.

Author : Bregt Natens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785364316
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulatory Autonomy and International Trade in Services written by Bregt Natens and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how the interplay between multilateral and preferential liberalisation of trade in services increasingly raises concerns, both from the perspective of the beneficiaries of such liberalisation (whose rights are uncertain) and that of regulators (whose regulatory autonomy is constrained). The author shows how these concerns lead to vast underutilisation of, and strong prejudices against, the benefits of services liberalisation. The book meticulously analyses and compares the EU's obligations under the GATS and the services chapters of several RTAs to finally assess the merits of the raised concerns.

Author : Oliver Sensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107004861
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant on Moral Autonomy written by Oliver Sensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.

Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465005680
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomy And Rigid Character written by David Shapiro and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1984-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.

Author : Andreas Ladner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319956426
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe written by Andreas Ladner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated concept to measure local autonomy and applies it to 39 countries, including all 28 EU member states together with Albania, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland Turkey and Ukraine, over a period of 25 years (1990-2014).