1. *I'd like to thank Jane Flax, Drucilla Cornell and Jennifer Nedelsky for their comments on an early draft of this essay during an annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. My thanks go also to two anonymous reviewers forThe Journal of Political Philosophyand to Peter Digeser who commented on a later draft of this piece. I'd also like to extend my special thanks to Robert Goodin for his generous support and encouragement after an unexpected delay in completing the final revisions.
2. Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem
3. Autonomy and Personal History
4. 3See Mackenzie and Stoljar,Relational Autonomy; and Diana Tietjens Meyers,Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life(New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).