Values and choices: What follows from a value-based account of autonomy for behavioural public policy?

The talk engages with work by David Enoch to make a threefold case regarding the value of autonomy. Firstly, a life in which an agent lives in accordance with their values, which they adopted via the right origin (autonomy as nonalienation) and a life in which an agent’s choices determine relevant matters (autonomy as sovereignty), is a life more autonomous than a life in which both, nonalienation and sovereignty, are impaired. Secondly, a life in which an agent is nonalienated via choices in pursuit of nonalienation is more autonomous than a life in which nonalienation and sovereignty are present merely by chance. Thirdly, while choices should usually be regarded as an expression of an agent’s values, certain origins of our preferences can lead to an autonomy deficit because of alienation. Implications of these notions for BPP will be discussed.

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