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HETERONOMY (from Gr, i<repos and vbuo...

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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 See also:state of being under the See also:rule of another See also:person . In See also:ethics the See also:term is specially used as the See also:antithesis of " See also:autonomy," which, especially in Kantian terminology, treats of the true self as will, determining itself by its own See also:law, the moral law . " See also:Heteronomy " is therefore applied by See also:Kant to all other ethical systems, inasmuch as they See also:place the individual in subjection to See also:external See also:laws of conduct .

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