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1 Clarification
2 Kurdistan
3 Autonomy is
4 AFD result - keep

[edit] Clarification

I am having a problem, perhaps someone could assist me ....

Its mentioned in the article

"Autonomy is not independence"

Random House dictionary

au•ton•o•my (ô ton‚ƒ mŽ) n., pl. -mies

1. independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions.

2. the condition of being autonomous; self-government or the right of self-government; independence.

3. a self-governing community. [1615–25; < Gk]

Thank you chance0 April 23, 2005

[edit] Kurdistan

Kurdistan officially does not hold any autonomy.

[edit] Autonomy is

Autonomy includes in its very concept the idea of pratical or material independence. Although one can say, as a stoic, that it is possible to be autonomous without actual freedom, it is not, because the human thinking and desiring is not at all without purpose and the one who wishes hopes to realize. Autonomy as a principle, rooted in human nature as generally we have in the iluminism and mostly in the liberalism, is not a concept in the realm of the wishfull thinking, it aims actual realization and was an instrument to criticize authoritarianism of pre-capitalist societies. It is a up to date problem how to organize human collectives with actual individual autonomy, specially if we consider the huge problem of free choice, free expression and free acting in the real realm of production, distribution and consume, that is, in economy. Most of the main contemporary authors that write about freedom and autonomy disguise this question and only consider autonomy in the realm of dialogue, politics or reason.

Paulo Fleury - 01/08/2006

the above is not very clearly written or particularly explanatory, it should be re-written 13:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)robat