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Autonomy

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State

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.

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A teenager who returns the excess change with nobody watching legislated for herself. No statute, no audience — reason gave the order.