According to the individualistic view of autonomy, we can understand autonomy without interpreting it as embedded in social relations. In the individualistic understanding, the capacity for autonomous decision-making is something that belongs to the individual as such. Relational approaches to autonomy, on the other hand, emphasize that individuals can only autonomously determine their own actions if certain social conditions exist that enable such decisions. Thus, a person who, in the individualistic understanding, is considered autonomous if they intentionally and freely give informed consent based on sufficient understanding, without direct manipulation or coercion, may not be autonomous in the relational understanding if the social conditions structurally restrict the consenting person's decision options.