title: [Is autonomy ground of human dignity?].
abstract: This paper considers the conditions of autonomy if this is to be the foundation of human dignity. Since Kant Modernity has dissociated nature from morality and has tried to support autonomy in its purely formal aspect. To forget nature has voluntarist consequences that affect the way in which autonomy is understand. But autonomy does not consist of not having links, but of knowing how to assume one's own links freely and to be conscious of one's own limits. Autonomy and liberty are the very thing of the rational being, capable of discerning good and bad, and this must direct our actions. Reason directs as and distances us from reality to recognize the advisable thing in the human being.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Filosofía, Facultad de Filosofía, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia. gordillo@um.es
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gordillo Alvarez-Valdés
mesh_terms: D026684:Personal Autonomy