PHIL 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
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Why might autonomy be valuable (1) epistemological argument: we find happiness in various ways, we are not good judges of what will make others happy nor are we generally good guardians of other persons" best interests (2) practical argument, mill says, the individual person is the person most interested in his well being: the interest which any other person, except in cases of strong personal attachment, can have in it, is trifling, compared with that he himself has (c261, free choices also have content independent value (what we might also call intrinsic value) for those who make them, (we might also call this dimension of the value of free choices consequence independent value)
