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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, the state of divergent modification in parts that exhibit general homology or homonomy.
  • noun Subordination or subjection to a law imposed by another or from without: opposed to autonomy.
  • noun Specifically, in the Kantian ethics, subjection of the will to the control of the natural appetites, passions, and desires, instead of to the moral law of reason.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
  • noun (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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
  • noun The state of being beholden to external influences.
  • noun biology The condition of being heteronomous

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Examples

  • In philosophy, the term (with its antithesis "heteronomy") was applied by

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • In the Groundwork Kant contrasts an ethics of autonomy, in which the will (Wille, or practical reason itself) is the basis of its own law, from the ethics of heteronomy, in which something independent of the will such as happiness is the basis of moral law (4: 440-41).

    Kant's Social and Political Philosophy Rauscher, Frederick 2007

  • Autonomy and heteronomy are a matter of dynamic degree.

    Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

  • The problem here is what psychologist of religon Gordon Allport called that of "heteronomy."

    True confessions, and confession Mike L 2006

  • The problem here is what psychologist of religon Gordon Allport called that of "heteronomy."

    Archive 2006-05-01 Mike L 2006

  • However grounded, liberalism depended on subjectivizing reason and objective moral principles; subjects are proclaimed “autonomous” all the while they sink into the heteronomy of market relations.

    Critical Theory Bohman, James 2005

  • Bauer's ethical idealism resembles what Kant calls perfectionism, or Vollkommenheit, a form of rational heteronomy, one of whose meanings is that action is validated by its contribution to historical progress.

    Bruno Bauer Moggach, Douglas 2005

  • Beauty serves as the “symbol” of morality (§59, passim), in that a judgment of beauty “legislates for itself” rather than being “subjected to a heteronomy of laws of experience” (§59, 353); relatedly, feelings of pleasure in the beautiful are analogous to moral consciousness

    Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology Ginsborg, Hannah 2005

  • The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of the reason, is called prejudice....

    Kant on Maxims of Taste 2005

  • The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of the reason, is called prejudice....

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

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