Individual autonomy presupposes shared norms, accountability, and public trust.

Evidence

Without a background of common knowledge, a shared community of understanding about making appropriate normative distinctions, a system of social accountability for monitoring and enforcing rules, and a substantial degree of public trust that ruleordered relationships will be adhered to, there is no basis for assigning autonomy to individuals to exercise responsibility for the actions they take in the governance of their own affairs and in relating to others. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Tocquevillean civic-association thinking and game-theoretic accounts of cooperation (common knowledge, trust) — echoes the reader’s interest in institutions as grounding individual freedom. — connects to: Private and public autonomy must mutually enable each other in a self-stabilizing cycle — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 86; Authority presupposes freedom in those subjected to it — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 4948; Relying on collective trustworthiness is a collective, not merely individual, problem. (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 72

Related

• Private and public autonomy must mutually enable each other in a self-stabilizing cycle (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Private and public autonomy must mutually enable each other in a self-stabilizing cycle #expands (0.90) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 86
• Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust #exemplifies (0.88) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182
• Relying on collective trustworthiness is a collective, not merely individual, problem. #expands (0.85)
• Authority presupposes freedom in those subjected to it #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 4948
• Trust requires freedom be transferred from uncontrollable potency to institutionalized personal responsibility. #qualifies (0.80)
• Trust presupposes a structured environment supplied by the existence of other systems. #expands (0.75)