Self Authorship
First off, self-authorship has three important requirements for a person. These requirements help define what self-authorship is and means to a person. According to Jean Hampton in her article “Selflessness and the Loss of Self”, one of the requirements to achieve self-authorship is “ a sense of your own intrinsic and equal value as a human being”. This is basically a person’s understanding of his or her worth in society. This helps shape what a person values in themselves and others. But how does an individual decide who is worth more, the other person or themselves? To be self-authored, Hampton suggests “one must respect the value not only of others but also of oneself, and must therefore reject any roles, projects, or occupations which would be self-exploitative” (Hampton 38). This is an egalitarian concept of human worth. Kant, which came up with this egalitarian theory states that all people are equal as long as they are rational and autonomous (Hampton, 37). In conclusion, one must...
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