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What does heteronomous mean?

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Adjective
  1. arising from an external influence, force, or agency; not autonomous
  2. (biology) differing in development or in specialization
  3. (linguistics) being a dialect of an autonomous language
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For Bauer, socialism was irredeemably heteronomous.
To say that we are heteronomous because of this is therefore deeply problematic.
Thus these varieties are said to be dependent on, or heteronomous with respect to, Standard German, which is said to be autonomous.
An action that springs from desire, emotion, or interest is therefore heteronomous.
Being free but not autonomous is a condition Kant called heteronomous.
Developmental theorists have described this type of motivation in similar ways using the terms heteronomous morality, impulsive, and to a lesser extent, pre-operational.

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