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Applied Ethics · Chapter 8

The Autonomy Console

Beauchamp and Childress define an autonomous choice, not an autonomous person: it must be intentional, made with understanding, and voluntary. Only the first is all-or-nothing. Pick a case, then spend clinical moves on it — and watch which moves build a real choice, which change nothing, and which quietly destroy one.

1 · The case

2 · What you do about it

The three conditions, live