ABSTRACT

Roughly speaking, to be morally autonomous is to be an ethical agent, bearing responsibility for one’s actions, which requires reasonableness: the wherewithal to act in a way that can be supported by reasons. Conversely, to be reasonable requires the ability to choose between reasons, an ability which is especially important if we accept my multi-aspectual account of reasonableness. But this ability to choose between reasons is itself essential to the ability to choose reasonably which action to take: another way of characterizing autonomy.