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Autonomy

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Belief that we are self-directed beings, the centre of our own worlds, making our own free choices

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A priori

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Knowledge which is not dependant on sense experience

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Heteronomy

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For Kant, the state of being directed by others in our decision-making

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Free will

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The belief that we are able to make our own uncompelled choices in life

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Deontological Ethics

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Any ethical system which ignores outcomes, concentrating just on whether the act is good in itself

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Hypothetical Imperative

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What we must do to achieve a particular goal, there is no requirement to follow this, but it is how we should act if we wish to achieve something, the character of ‘…if … then…”

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Categorical Imperative

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That which our reason teaches us always must be done, there are three forms of the imperative

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First form of the Categorical Imperative

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Act only on that maxim that you can will to be universal law

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Second form of the Categorical Imperative

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So act as to treat persons always as ends and never as means only

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Third form of the Categorical Imperative

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So act as to treat everyone, including yourself, as an end in the kingdom of ends