AUTONOMY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

2.
n.

The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Fleming.


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