Personal Autonomy..late :-\

Last inquiry class we met in the library to not only research autonomy but also to find out more about Buley Library. I’ve learned how to check out and find books, use the libraries website, and make the library more useful for me. It wasn’t hard to find a book once I found out its general location. Autonomy means having the right or power of self-government. So basically you can do what you please but I think to a certain extent. We were told to find a book and article relative to our subject. The book I chose was Personal Autonomy in Society by Marina Oshana. Now obviously I didn’t read the whole book to its entirety but I did come up with a conclusion to what Marina is trying to get at. She develops autonomy and how it affects a person’s relationships with others and also the absence of certain relationships socially. She argues against many things such as content, procedural and psychological accounts in regards to autonomy. Marina doesn’t believe that command over someone’s motives and their freedom to realize their will are good enough to secure the command over their life that autonomy requires. I believe Marina was the right person to publish this book because she is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. The article I found during the session with the librarian, “Autonomy and Submissive Behavior among Students at the College of Nursing” written by Leman Senturan was really helpful. Reason being is that it was research studied on nursing students currently in college and I found relevance to it because I am studying to be a nurse. The research was conducted to define and analyze the levels and relationship between autonomy and submissive behavior among nursing students. The result was that nursing students are expected to have high levels of autonomy and a low level of submissive behavior. Since I’m not already enrolled in the nursing program I can’t fully relate but I think it is good to be autonomous but better to have a submissive attitude because you’re more obedient rather than having an attitude about getting the job done.