Kantian Moral Autonomy and Personal Autonomy: Convergences regarding the harm principle

Abstract

This work aims to expose some aspects in which Kantian moral autonomy and personal autonomy may be related regarding the harm principle defended in liberalism. For that, in the first and second sections, I will briefly present the principle and how it could be justified according to the Kantian approach to autonomy and the approach to personal autonomy, taking Raz’s version as a relevant example of this idea. In the second part, I will argue that in some aspects like respect for others, substantive moral content and critical reflection as a capacity for authenticity these relationships are more visible. In the final part, I will present some conclusions in this regard.