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    Challenges→Freedom may consist in the ability to follow one's own reasonable judgment concerning the best course of action in a given situation.

    Kant's account of autonomy holds that genuine freedom consists in self-legislation according to universal rational principle, not mere pursuit of what seems best to the individual.

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    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Universal rational principle(describing what the Logos is)
    A rule or law that applies everywhere and to everything, based on reason and logic rather than personal opinion.
    autonomy(Used to ground worker rights to self-governance in the workplace)
    The right to freely determine one's own actions
    self-legislation(Kantian account of normativity)
    Each person is viewed as herself legislating norms to serve as requirements on all agents.

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