Autonomy
[ɔː'tɒnəmɪ] or [ɔ'tɑnəmi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence.
(noun.) personal independence.
整理:玛米--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
(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.
弗雷达錄入
解釋/意思:
n. the power or right of self-government: (Kant's philos.) the doctrine that the human will carries its guiding principle within itself.—adjs. Auton′omous Autonom′ic.
手打:所罗门
例句/造句/用法:
- Why this age should have come to be what it is, why at this particular time the whole drift of thought should be from authority to autonomy would be an interesting speculation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Yet that there is a common impulse in modern thought which strives towards autonomy is true and worth remarking. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The old routines and the old taboos are breaking up anyway, social forces are emerging which seek autonomy and struggle against slavery to non-human purposes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In another connection I pointed to autonomy as the hope of syndicalism. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
手打:内蒂