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- Title
Transformative experience and the right to revelatory autonomy.
- Authors
Akhlaghi, Farbod
- Abstract
Sometimes it is not us but those to whom we stand in special relations that face transformative choices: our friends, family or beloved. A focus upon first-personal rational choice and agency has left crucial ethical questions regarding what we owe to those who face transformative choices largely unexplored. In this paper I ask: under what conditions, if any, is it morally permissible to interfere to try to prevent another from making a transformative choice? Some seemingly plausible answers to this question fail precisely because they concern transformative experiences. I argue that we have a distinctive moral right to revelatory autonomy grounded in the value of autonomous self-making. If this right is outweighed then, I argue, interfering to prevent another making a transformative choice is permissible. This conditional answer lays the groundwork for a promising ethics of transformative experience.
- Subjects
AUTONOMY (Philosophy); EPISTEMICS; THEORY of knowledge; LANGUAGE &; logic; GENERAL semantics
- Publication
Analysis, 2023, Vol 83, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0003-2638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/analys/anac084