ABSTRACT
One potential mechanism for enhancing autonomy that has garnered a lot of attention in recent years is nudging. Nudging refers to alterations made to the 'choice architecture' confronting the agent, in order to increase the chances that she chooses in accordance with her long-term plans and values. From the perspective of the four-dimensional theory there are a variety of ways in which an action can fail to be fully autonomous, and a variety of reasons for which this failure might occur. Paternalism is often thought to involve a failure to respect autonomy because it involves overriding the agent's right to autonomy. This way of approaching appraisal respect can also be utilised for thinking about the relationship between dialogue and disrespect. The relevance of relationships is central to the question of whether intervention to assist those with physical disabilities is disrespectful, in the appraisal sense.
