See also:

• AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law)  , in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, freedom from See also:

• EXTERNAL

external See also:

• RESTRAINT (from " to restrain," Lat. restringere, to hold back, prevent)

restraint, self-See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . The See also:

• TERM

term is usually coupled with a qualifying See also:

• ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective . Thus, See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

autonomy is self-government in its widest sense, See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence of all See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control from without . See also:

• LOCAL

Local autonomy is a freedom of self-government within a See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere marked out by some See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior authority; e.g. municipal corporations in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England have their administrative See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers marked out for them by acts of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, and in so far as they govern themselves within these limits exercise local autonomy . Administrative or constitutional autonomy, such as exists in the See also:

• BRITISH

British colonies, implies an extent of self-government which falls See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short only of See also:

• COMPLETE

complete independence . The term is used loosely even in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of e.g. religious bodies, individual churches and other communities which' enjoy a measure of self-government in certain specified respects . In See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, the term (with its See also:

• ANTITHESIS (the Greek for " setting opposite ")

antithesis " See also:

• HETERONOMY (from Gr, i

heteronomy ") was applied by See also:

• KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant to that aspect of the rational will in which, qua rational, it is a See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law to itself, independently alike of any e4cternal 'authority, of the results of experience and of the impulses of See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure and See also:

• PAIN (from Lat. poena, Gr. robin, penalty, that which must be paid: O. Fr. peine)
• PAIN, BARRY (1867– )

pain . In the sphere of morals, the ultimate and only authority which the mind can recognize is the law which emerges from the pure moral consciousness . This is the only sense in which moral freedom can be understood . (See ETH3cs; KANT.) Though the term "autonomy" in its fullest sense implies entire freedom from causal See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity, it can also be used even in determinist theories for relative independence of particular conditions, theological or conventional .