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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 415 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HETERONOMY (from Gr, iSee also:
rule of another)  , the
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state of being under the
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rule of another
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person . In
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ethics the
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term is specially used as the
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antithesis of "
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autonomy," which, especially in Kantian terminology, treats of the true self as will, determining itself by its own
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law, the moral law . "
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Heteronomy " is therefore applied by
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Kant to all other ethical systems, inasmuch as they
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place the individual in subjection to
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external
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laws of conduct .

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