The Immanuel Kant Conception of Autonomy

The philosopher on whose work I've spent most time and given most attention is Immanuel Kant. He's very well known for putting a conception of autonomy, very central in his arguments. And he first really became alert to what was going on in bioethics when people were claiming that the position they're taking has Kantian ancestry and authority. The conflation between autonomy and morality is simply a failure to realize that if you're talking about individual autonomy, you haven't yet begun to talk about how those capacities should be used. You're not yet talking about ethics.