A negatively free will cannot be heteronomous; so it must be autonomous. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
To say that we are heteronomous because of this is therefore deeply problematic. From Wordnik.com. [Autonomy in Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
Hence, intuition thus conceived threatens to introduce a heteronomous, and therefore rationally unacceptable, factor into science. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Natorp] Reference
According to Kant, only autonomous legislation can yield a categorical imperative; whereas heteronomous legislation can yield only hypothetical imperatives. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
He may also mean that he believes controlled anarchy as the demise of any heteronomous authority sets the proper conditions for the discovery of suppressed esoteric trends in a society. From Wordnik.com. [Gershom Scholem] Reference
Nevertheless, we can see the extent of the influence of moral sense theories on Kant's ethics in the way that moral feeling continued to figure in Kant's moral thought long after he rejected moral sense theories as heteronomous. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
Liberals might criticize this on anti-paternalist grounds, objecting that such measures will require the state to use resources in ways that the supposedly heteronomous individuals, if left to themselves, might have chosen to spend in other ways. From Wordnik.com. [Positive and Negative Liberty] Reference
For reason to be autonomous, its activity must be spontaneous; but this spontaneity cannot be conceived of psychologically, because human cognition as a matter of fact has a passive, and therefore heteronomous, intuitive element, namely sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Natorp] Reference
The characterization of appropriately ruled non-philosophers as slavish might suggest a special concern for the “heteronomous” character of their capacity to do what they want and a special valorization of the philosophers '“autonomous” capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic] Reference
In Kantian categories, this second line of argument singles out not the evil of heteronomous considerations, but the goodness of considerations that autonomous and reasonable agents could accept as an appropriate basis for settling fundamental political questions. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Political Theory] Reference
That should teach us that the desire for marriage has to be originally and primarily autonomous rather than heteronomous: one has to want to marry, and marry this person, wholeheartedly and for their own sake, else one isn't going to make a truly sacramental go of it. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage and vocation] Reference
Indeed, a voice of critique so understood ought consider — though not resolve — the delicate boundaries between the social and spiritual dimensions of meaning and, correspondingly, its own precarious location between the spontaneous and the providential, the self-affirmation of its subjective intelligence and its responsiveness to heteronomous material signs and "hints.". From Wordnik.com. [Pfau, Coda & Works Cited'] Reference
The wisest requirements seem to the child more or less alien, arbitrary, heteronomous, artificial, falsetto. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
Insofar as it fails to meet this condition, and does find itself under the influence of 'alien causes', then it is heteronomous. From Wordnik.com. [SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists] Reference
The sphere of necessity encompasses two types of heteronomous activity: that required for the social production of necessities, and that required for the functioning of society as material entity. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Ransom explicity objects to Winters 'heteronomous principles of poetry - his subordination of formal concerns to moral concerns - in the 1941 volume that became the namesake of a movement, The New Criticism. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
In Kant's terms, both are heteronomous ” “directed by another.”). From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Account of Reason] Reference
Kant, I’m sure, wouldn’t be impressed with brainscans of heteronomous motivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex)] Reference
“thinking with assent” to certain propositions on au - thority involves a surrender of autonomy, a descent into a heteronomous, or “other-directed” situation. From Wordnik.com. [FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY] Reference
Kant assumes that all nonhuman animals, for example, are heteronomous, their wills governed by nature through their instincts, impulses, and empirical desires (G 4: 444, CPrR. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
Reason’s Matt Welsh argues against both Virginia’s imputation of heteronomous decision-making and her assumption that a Kerry presidency will be fiscally less responsible than a Bushone. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Fashion slave:] Reference
Kant creates taxonomies of misguided, heteronomous ethical theories based on material determining grounds ” in contrast to his theory of autonomy, in which the moral motive constitutes an objective, formal determining ground. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
It is also worth noticing that in addition to Kant's describing all moral agents as autonomous (in that they are self-legislating and have the capacity to act rightly through their own self-constraint), Kant sometimes describes as autonomous ways of acting that realize the latter capacity ” and as heteronomous ways of acting that fail to do so (G 4: 440 “ 41, 444; CPrR 5: 29, 43. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
Ian Lustick, 1988) "Ours is not an autonomous scale of values, the product of human reason, but rather an heteronomous or, more correctly, theonomous scale rooted in the will of the Divine architect of the universe and its moral order. From Wordnik.com. [MAHAGURU58] Reference
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