Hip Glossary: Autonomy

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

2. (Metaph.) 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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Autonomous

1. Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

2. (Biol.) Having independent existence or laws.

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