heteronomy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of heteronomy
Example Sentences
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One of its themes contrasts autonomy and heteronomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
From it he derives his all-important distinction between religious "heteronomy," which is imposed upon the individual, and religious "autonomy," in which the individual continually seeks and hopes to find.
From Time Magazine Archive
In contrast with the Legislative, the Executive power expresses the heteronomy of the nation in contrast with its autonomy.
From Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
The characteristic of Morality thus described is its essential inwardness, and the sovereignty of the conscience over all heteronomy.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is called autonomy of Will and is contrasted with heteronomy.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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