Autonomy and Identity

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Autonomy and Identity
Les Green, Semper Veridis, 2018/11/23
Short post on how autonomy and identity go hand in hand. I've argued for autonomy in the past as a core element of successful networks, and it's not hard to see why: "its value lies in creating lives for ourselves, in making up identities, in choosing and pursuing ‘conceptions of the good’." But what about cases where identity is determined by nature - whether my DNA says I'm Irish or English, for example. More...