Autonomy, Knowledge, Power

Kant well recognizes that outer experience being multifarious, it is essentially unorganized.  Accordingly, it is only via the Forms of Intuition that it first becomes successive, and then only via the Categories of the Understanding that Successiveness becomes further structured.  However, he does not seem to recognize the implications of the analysis for behavior--that any organization of external influences must be Autonomous.  In contrast, Spinoza does recognize that Adequate Knowledge and Autonomy are one and the same.  More specifically, Knowledge for him is not Knowing-That, but Knowing-How.  Thus Adequate Knowledge entails control of some event, either by entailing a means of neutralizing it, or by entailing a means of reproducing it.  In other words, according to Spinoza, Knowledge and Power are one and the same.  Thus, another example of the superficiality of the standard Rationalism vs. Empiricism classifications is that two founding proponents of the Knowledge = Power thesis are an 'Empiricist', Bacon, and a 'Rationalist', Spinoza.