Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): Autonomy and Legitimacy

Autonomy according to Sieckmann consists in the formation of normative judgments on the basis of the weighting of normative arguments. Through a schematic presentation of the main theses of the text and the criticisms and contributions of its commentators, the author will defend a conception that according to him allows solving the paradox of autonomy, that is, how the authors of the norms can understand themselves bound by those same norms, explaining the objective validity of the norms as a result of autonomous argumentation and reconstructing the idea of ​​democracy as the institutionalization of autonomous argumentation.