COMM 2273 Lecture 64: AT- AUTONOMY (JUSTICE SPECIFIC)

• School: University of Arkansas-Monticello
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 2273
• Professor: Key

Document Summary

First, claiming that autonomy is the goal of all justice is contradictory. Autonomy involves the conception of individuals as free choosers. But this forces people into thinking of themselves as choosers. This contradicts the initial notion of choice, because it forces the individual to choose. The impact is that you reject the affirmative framework because it is contradictory. Second, the affirmative seeks to locate between all individuals the similarity that they are all autonomous. From this, they abstract from the particular social situations and seek to unify all people under the banner of respecting autonomy. But this just distances people from each other. Young writes, the irony of the logic of identity is that by seeking to reduce the differently similar to the same, it [you] turns the merely different into the absolutely other. It inevitably generates dichotomy instead of unity, because the move to bring particulars under a universal category creates a distinction between inside and outside.