In philosophy, the term (with its antithesis "heteronomy") was applied by. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Autonomy and heteronomy are a matter of dynamic degree. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
The problem here is what psychologist of religon Gordon Allport called that of "heteronomy.". From Wordnik.com. [True confessions, and confession] Reference
The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of the reason, is called prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bruno Bauer] Reference
Poetry wanted to annihilate itself as language and become as self-sufficient as an image, inviting desire perhaps, but not worrying about the possibility of its heteronomy, its dependence on human language and human design. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Social and Political Philosophy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology] Reference
But it also acknowledges heteronomy, the claim of the Creator and of the common good. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In contrast with the Legislative, the Executive power expresses the heteronomy of the nation in contrast with its autonomy. From Wordnik.com. [Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte] Reference
I will therefore call this the principle of autonomy of the will, in contrast with every other which I accordingly reckon as heteronomy. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
The sensible nature of rational beings in general is their existence under laws empirically conditioned, which, from the point of view of reason, is heteronomy. From Wordnik.com. [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference
It shows itself, nevertheless, in their systems, as it always produces heteronomy of practical reason; and from this can never be derived a moral law giving universal commands. From Wordnik.com. [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference
Physical necessity is a heteronomy of the efficient causes, for every effect is possible only according to this law, that something else determines the efficient cause to exert its causality. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
Not only so, but it is inevitably only heteronomy; the will does not give itself the law, but is given by a foreign impulse by means of a particular natural constitution of the subject adapted to receive it. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
Not only so, but it is inevitably only heteronomy; the will does not give itself the law, but it is given by a foreign impulse by means of a particular natural constitution of the subject adapted to receive it. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals.] Reference
But what interests us more here is to know that the prime foundation of morality laid down by all these principles is nothing but heteronomy of the will, and for this reason they must necessarily miss their aim. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
If the will seeks the law which is to determine it anywhere else than in the fitness of its maxims to be universal laws of its own dictation, consequently if it goes out of itself and seeks this law in the character of any of its objects, there always results heteronomy. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
For it will have been seen from the Analytic that, if we assume any object under the name of a good as a determining principle of the will prior to the moral law and then deduce from it the supreme practical principle, this would always introduce heteronomy and crush out the moral principle. From Wordnik.com. [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference
The autonomy of the will is the sole principle of all moral laws and of all duties which conform to them; on the other hand, heteronomy of the elective will not only cannot be the basis of any obligation, but is, on the contrary, opposed to the principle thereof and to the morality of the will. From Wordnik.com. [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference
If therefore the matter of the volition, which can be nothing else than the object of a desire that is connected with the law, enters into the practical law, as the condition of its possibility, there results heteronomy of the elective will, namely, dependence on the physical law that we should follow some impulse or inclination. From Wordnik.com. [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference
In every case where an object of the will has to be supposed in order that the rule may be prescribed which is to determine the will, there the rule is simply heteronomy; the imperative is conditional, namely, IF or BECAUSE one wishes for this object, one should act so and so: hence it can never command morally, that is categorically. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
In every case where an object of the will has to be supposed, in order that the rule may be prescribed which is to determine the will, there the rule is simply heteronomy; the imperative is conditional, namely, if or because one wishes for this object, one should act so and so: hence it can never command morally, that is categorically. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals.] Reference
In every case where an object of the will has to be supposed, in order that the rule may be prescribed which is to determine the will, there the rule is simply heteronomy; the imperative is conditional, namely, if or because one wishes for this object, one should act so and so: hence it can never command morally, that is, categorically. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
If therefore I were only a member of the world of understanding, then all my actions would perfectly conform to the principle of autonomy of the pure will; if I were only a part of the world of sense they would necessarily be assumed to conform wholly to the natural law of desires and inclinations, in other words, to the heteronomy of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
If therefore I were only a member of the world of understanding, then all my actions would perfectly conform to the principle of autonomy of the pure will; if I were only a part of the world of sense, they would necessarily be assumed to conform wholly to the natural law of desires and inclinations, in other words, to the heteronomy of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
For instance, Kant states that “if the will seeks the law that is to determine it anywhere else than in the fitness of its maxims for its own giving of universal law ¦ heteronomy always results” (4: 441) If the law determining right and wrong is grounded in either the value of outcomes or the value of the character of the agent, it seems it will not be found in the fitness of the action's maxim to be a universal law laid down by the agent's own rational will. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Moral Philosophy] Reference
In Kant's terms, this is heteronomy ” that is, reasoning directed from the outside, by an authority that is merely assumed. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Account of Reason] Reference
Kant criticized for their assumption of heteronomy all theories that located the ground of moral obligation or of proper moral motivation in such things as self-love, sympathy, and fear of divine punishment or hope for divine reward (G 4: 441 “ 44. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
(independently of any property of the objects of volition) "(Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals 3rd ed., p44)" If the will seeks the law that is to determine it anywhere but in the fitness of its maxims for its own legislation of universal laws, and if it thus goes outside of itself and seeks this law in the character of any of its objects, then heteronomy always results. From Wordnik.com. [SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists] Reference
But it does not in the least authorize us to think of it further than as to its formal condition only, that is, the universality of the maxims of the will as laws, and consequently the autonomy of the latter, which alone is consistent with its freedom; whereas, on the contrary, all laws that refer to a definite object give heteronomy, which only belongs to laws of nature and can only apply to the sensible world. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals] Reference
But it does not in the least authorize us to think of it further than as to its formal condition only, that is, the universality of the maxims of the will as laws, and consequently the autonomy of the latter, which alone is consistent with its freedom; whereas, on the contrary, all laws that refer to a definite object give heteronomy, which only belongs to laws of nature, and can only apply to the sensible world. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
In spiritual life, heteronomy is suicide. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
And heteronomy. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord’s Prayer of the Lingering Tillichian] Reference
(independently of any property of the objects of volition) "(Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals 3rd ed., p44)" If the will seeks the law that is to determine it anywhere but in the fitness of its maxims for its own legislation of universal laws, and if it thus goes outside of itself and seeks this law in the character of any of its objects, then heteronomy always results. (. From Wordnik.com. [SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists] Reference
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