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heteronomy

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Het`er`on´o`my
n.1.Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; - opposed to autonomy.
2.(Metaph.) A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.
heteronomy
1. the state or condition of being ruled, governed, or under the sway of another, as in a military occupation.
2. the state or condition of being under the influence or domination, in a moral, spiritual, or similar sense, of another person, entity, force, etc. Cf. autonomy. — heteronomous, adj.
See also: Government
the condition of being under the moral control of something or someone external; inability to be self-willing. — heteronymous, adj.
See also: Will
the condition of being under the rule or domination of another.
See also: Politics
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First, insist on heteronomy, on an authority outside oneself.
The Jewish way: killing in God's name? by Gorenberg, Gershom / Moment
To transform the classroom atmosphere from heteronomy to autonomy, we offer the following recommendations: Rule-making.
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The modern project is above all the attempt to realize human autonomy ever more completely, which requires breaking the two principal bonds of heteronomy at the heart of the various forms of the medieval synthesis: the divine law and the normative indications of man's place in the cosmos.
The divine law and the modern project by Shiffman, Mark / Modern Age
 
 
 
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