autonomism

For the core principle of secularism as an ideology is what I call autonomism: the proposition that man himself can and ought to define the basis of the state's legitimacy, without any necessary basis in or reference to a moral law higher than himself.

Defining our enemies Mike L 2007

For the core principle of secularism as an ideology is what I call autonomism: the proposition that man himself can and ought to define the basis of the state's legitimacy, without any necessary basis in or reference to a moral law higher than himself.

Archive 2007-07-01 Mike L 2007

It would seem his version of something he calls autonomism is just the same old stuff we have heard before the Parti Quebecois and others.

Mario Dumont: a constitutional fantasyland Ed Hollett 2007

All of this is the fruit of what I call "autonomism": the idea that human freedom entails the freedom to decide what the most fundamental norms of life are to be, a freedom constrained only by obvious considerations of physical reality and social utility.

The issues behind the issues Mike L 2007

All of this is the fruit of what I call "autonomism": the idea that human freedom entails the freedom to decide what the most fundamental norms of life are to be, a freedom constrained only by obvious considerations of physical reality and social utility.

Archive 2007-08-01 Mike L 2007

Yet because of its default secularism, and its corresponding ideology of what I call "autonomism," the West today makes it almost impossible for most of us to keep focused on what at's stake in every choice we make.

Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

Yet because of its default secularism, and its corresponding ideology of what I call "autonomism," the West today makes it almost impossible for most of us to keep focused on what at's stake in every choice we make.

The Feast of the Counterculture Mike L 2006

Key forces in the global justice movement shared a set of politics often called "autonomism" or "horizontalism," which explicitly opposed the formation of a defined radical or revolutionary organization.

Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org 2009

Now if autonomism could still be effectively reversed, Catholics would indeed be best placed to do the job.

The issues behind the issues Mike L 2007

Secularism is worthless as a political ideology because its autonomism reduces in turn to moral relativism, which can justify anything and therefore nothing.

Archive 2007-07-01 Mike L 2007