Heteronomy

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Heteronomy refers to action that is influenced by a force outside the individual, in other words the state or condition of being ruled, governed, or under the sway of another, as in amilitary occupation.

Immanuel Kant, drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau,[1] considered such an action nonmoral.[2]

It is the counter/opposite of autonomy.

Heteronomy means, in Greek law follow others. It happens when you simply follow the laws of our impulses and desires to social norms assumed by us thoughtlessly.

Our reason and our will, then, that we Haceb free in a truly human way. They are ultimately those that make us morally autonomous beings


Philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis contrasted heteronomy from autonomy in noting that while all societies create their own institutions (laws, traditions and behaviors), autonomous societies are those in which their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies (hetero = others) attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (e.g., God, the state, ancestors, historical necessity, etc.).

Heteronomy of will It describes the fact that when a subject does not follow the moral laws, laws that are to sublimitted, do not have their origin in his own reason but that you are given from outside. It will de determined by two principles, it many have two va ses: the reason or inclination. When the reason is determines the mode in which the will must act, this is autonomous because it gives itself its own laws, however when the will is determined by inclination will is heteronomous.

See also

References

  1. Rousseau, J.J. ([2010] 1754-1762). The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy. New York: Classic Books International.
  2. Glossary of Kant's Technical Terms by Stephen Palmquist

Further reading

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