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Rational will

Capacity to act according to principles that we determine for ourselves

Agency

Ability of a person to act based on her intentions and mental states

Autonomy

Will that is subject to a principle or law

Heteronomy

Simple legislation and imposition of a law by an external authority

Autonomy

Self-law

Heteronomy

Other law

Arbitrium brutum

Determinable only by inclination (sensible impulse, stimulus)

Free choice

Choice that can be determined by pure reason

Substantive moral theory

Identifies the particular duties in a straightforward manner that the adherents of the theory must follow

Formal moral theory

Does not supply the rules or commands straightaway

Maxim

Subjective principle of action

Paternalism

Evokes the metaphor of father

Rational permissibility

Intrinsic quality of an action that is objectively and necessarily rational

Universalizability

Ability of a maxim to be willed to become a universal law