This is the second in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. As we saw in the last post, there is a false dichotomy ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Mack Paul The recent surge by protest candidates and apathy toward front-runners set ...

In a business, employee autonomy can have positive benefits for both the individuals and the company as a whole. When staff members have the freedom to approach their jobs in a way that suits their ...

Without falling into the trap of social constructionism that sees every category as a product of a given social order, we are obliged to ask for a definition of the 'free individual.' How does ...

The "assumption is that more individual autonomy is automatically better," but the "desire to extend and expand the scope of euthanasia doesn't seem to be based on any coherent moral framework," says ...

It was not by chance that when the workers began to radicalize their movement they demanded “autonomy”, that is, their independence from external representatives, whether from the vertical bureaucracy ...

Autonomy is all about having the freedom to make your own choices based on what you truly believe and value, without feeling pressured or controlled by external factors. In psychology, it's seen as a ...

Ethical analysis of population health management calls for a communitarian vs individual approach, starting with reconceiving “covered lives” as “patient communities.” US health care has long sought ...

A PERSONAL CHOICE: Rep. Howard Beaty (R-Crossett) says a bill that would prohibit vaccine mandates supports individual autonomy and personal choice. Republican lawmakers in support of a bill that ...