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n. The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.

n. The state of being beholden to external influences.

n. The condition of being heteronomous

n. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

n. A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.

n. Subordination or subjection to a law imposed by another or from without: opposed to autonomy.

n. Specifically, in the Kantian ethics, subjection of the will to the control of the natural appetites, passions, and desires, instead of to the moral law of reason.

n. In biology, the state of divergent modification in parts that exhibit general homology or homonomy.

"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)."

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