ABSTRACT
In recent years, attention has focused on two types of psychological authenticity accounts of autonomy. The first, earlier models offer “internalist” interpretations of self-determination. Internalist views are Cartesian in that they make the autonomy of persons derivative of specific psychological conditions. What goes on in the mind of the individual (or the soul, if you like) rather than what goes on in the world around her decides her standing as self-governing or not.1
