Abstract
I committed myself to write a paper on autonomy in relation to Latin America, in particular to the situation that prevailed in EI Salvador at the time of Oscar Romero's tenure as archbishop of the capital of his country. As a native Latin American and as a Christian, I eagerly availed myself of this opportunity to reflect on archbishop Romero himself-a historical figure for whom I had much admiration. I must confess, though, that I found myself hampered by the constraint I had accepted of viewing Romero precisely in order to make explicit certain aspects of human autonomy. I hope that this constraint, in the version of it I adopted in taking Jean-Paul Sartre's conception of autonomy as my foil, will neither distort archbishop Romero's extraordinary character nor prevent the readers of this article from paying to him the attention he deserves.
Recommended Citation
Monasterio, Xavier O.
(1997)
"On Archbishop Romero and Some Aspects of Autonomy,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 25:
No.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol25/iss1/11
