Autonomy and Freedom
Autonomy and Freedom
This chapter seeks to clarify the place of autonomy in the account of practical reasoning, and to connect it with Kant's idea about the ‘laws of freedom’ characteristic of a liberal state and with Smith's ‘system of natural liberty’ essential to a free market economy. It begins with some further reflections on autonomy, then proceeds to consider how the natural law inheritance may help to understand the argument, and how it leads on to the quite radical ideas about human freedom that Smith and Kant advanced.
Keywords: Kant, laws of freedom, Adam Smith, liberty, free market economy, practical reasoning
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