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Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Autonomy(noun) the power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state. Autonomy(noun) the sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself.
This is merely a sampling of some of the central ways that the idea of autonomy figures in moral philosophy. Not discussed here are areas of applied ethics, for example in medical ethics, where respect for autonomy grounds such principles as that of informed consent.utting moral weight on an individual's ability to govern herself, independent of her place in a metaphysical order or her role in social structures and political institutions is very much the product of the modernist humanism of which much contemporary moral and political philosophy is an offshoot.