Personal autonomy: freedom or responsibility?

- Чайка, Г.В. (orcid.org/0000-0001-7799-1314) (2018) Personal autonomy: freedom or responsibility? Актуальні проблеми психології: Психологія обдарованості, 14 (6). pp. 259-266. ISSN 2072-4772

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Abstract

The article examines the concepts of freedom and responsibility through the prism of personal autonomy. The classical approaches to understanding of the “freedom” concept, as well as the modern work of national and foreign scientists in the field of the “personal autonomy” concept are discussed. Modern humanistic conceptions of a human being consider a person as a being of the nature (biological), as a social (cultural) being and as an existential (independent, free, the essence for oneself) being. Freedom is connected with awareness and understanding of the situation, with the possibility of a choice and responsibility for the choice made. The four main approaches to understanding the origins of autonomy in the work of contemporary foreign scientists are discussed. Changes in personal autonomy during human life are revealed, it is emphasized that the periods of adolescence and youth are sensitive to formation and manifestation of this personal quality. Development in adolescence is unambiguously determined by increased autonomy. The essence of the teenage crisis is that motive forces of personal development are shifted from outside to inside, into a person’s inner world, which is reflected in integration and development of the mechanisms of freedom and responsibility

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