Relational Autonomy, Normative Authority and Perfectionism.

The article focuses on developing a relational approach to autonomy that restricts normative authority over decisions of import in practical identity and in relations of intersubjective recognition. It talks about a relational approach to the principle of respect for autonomy and argues on the implications of respect for agents whose autonomy is impaired. Two examples from health-care contexts are discussed in order to illustrate the problems arising from debates about autonomy within moral psychology and about the normative requirement to respect another's autonomy.