{"id":8128,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/heteronomy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:20","slug":"heteronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/heteronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Heteronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acceptance of externally defined rules, laws and norms; originating outside the self. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/md2\/timewarp\/kant.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/md2\/timewarp\/kant.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immanuel Kant<\/a>&nbsp;(1724-1804), following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-rous.htm\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-rous.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Jacques Rousseau<\/a>&nbsp;(1712-1778), considered the imposition of laws from without to be non-moral, or a least leading to a spurious form of morality. &nbsp;The opposite of heteronomy is autonomy. &nbsp;Heteronomy in a developmental context would be, for example. the education of children by means of transmitting knowledge and values from one generation to the next. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a>&#8216;s approach to education opposed such a view in emphasizing its aim should be the cultivation of intellectual and moral autonomy. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"moral_development\">Moral development<\/a>, <a href=\"self\">Self<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acceptance of externally defined rules, laws and norms; originating outside the self. &nbsp;Immanuel Kant&nbsp;(1724-1804), following Jean-Jacques Rousseau&nbsp;(1712-1778), considered the imposition of laws from without to be non-moral, or a least leading to a spurious form of morality. &nbsp;The opposite of heteronomy is autonomy. &nbsp;Heteronomy in a developmental context would be, for example. the education of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/heteronomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heteronomy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}