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In different ways, the problem of freedom now comes to be understood in terms of the capacity of an autonomous individual to establish an identity through shaping a meaningful everyday life. Freedom is seen as autonomy, the capacity to realize one’s potential through one’s own endeavours, to determine the course of one’s own existence through acts of choice (Rose, 1999, p. 84).
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Carlson, D.L., Albright, J. (2012). New Paternalism. In: Carlson, D.L., Albright, J. (eds) Composing a Care of the Self. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-022-4_7
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