Ethics and Values / Unit 5 Ethics 216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Autonomy
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The idea
Autonomy, in Kant's sense, is rational self-legislation: the moral law binds because the agent's own reason issues it, not because authority or desire does.
In practice
A teenager who returns the excess change with nobody watching legislated for herself. No statute, no audience — reason gave the order.
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