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Definition of Heteronomy
1. n. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
Definition of Heteronomy
1. Noun. The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being beholden to external influences. ¹
3. Noun. (biology) The condition of being heteronomous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heteronomy
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Medical Definition of Heteronomy
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1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; opposed to autonomy.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heteronomy
Literary usage of Heteronomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"social life, becoming in time crystallized into a heteronomy purely legal and
... The heteronomy, moreover, of a present generation was the autonomy of ..."
2. The Metaphysic of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, John William Semple (1836)
"... is made part of the practical law, and represented as a condition pre-re-
quisite to its possibility, then heteronomy (a false principle of morals) ..."
3. Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant (1889)
"... in the character of any of its objects, there always results heteronomy.
The will in that case does not give itself the law, but it is given by the ..."
4. European History: Chiefly Ancient, in Its Processes by Denton Jaques Snider (1908)
"Thus the new heteronomy, as we may call it in contrast with Oriental heteronomy,
which the European Greek Polyarchy put down at Salamis ..."
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