THE AUTONOMY OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Question 1

what is central to anarchism

Answer 1

The idea that the individual should rule for themselves and refused to be ruled by others

Question 2

What is the crucial point for anarchists

Answer 2

That the people CAN govern themselves

Question 3

What is the 4 step process for the argument for autonomy

Answer 3

1 - all individuals are responsible for their own actions

2 - this assumes that all individuals are “free” to make their own choices on how they act

3 - as the individual is rational, they should use that as a base to set their own laws

4 - in this way individuals are free to act in line with the moral laws that they decided for themselves

Question 4

What is the central theme of anarchism

Answer 4

Freedom and the point of society is to give individuals the widest range of individual choices

Question 5

What is a critical debate within anarchism

Answer 5

What freedom means

Question 6

What is stirner’s view of freedom

Answer 6

Each individual is unique and egotistical. there can be no restriction on freedom. He feared that freedom of the individual would be limited by social duty to the interest of the collective

Question 7

Proudhon and goldman’s views of freedm

Answer 7

Both sought a balance between the interests of the individual and the collective, argued that the natural complement to the individual is working with others to solve common problems

Question 8

Kropotkin and Bakunin’s views of freedom

Answer 8

endorsed the widest possible freedmon. however their definition of freedom is that it can only be achieved in the company of thers.