Sentences with phrase «autonomous individual»

In the economics mainstream, people are thought of as autonomous individuals who are driven by a desire to maximize their own levels of personal satisfaction.

Two autonomous individuals enter into a limited liability partnership that can easily be dissolved.

Furthermore, it is arrived at through the free consent of morally autonomous individuals.

To what extent is society required to help facilitate the choices of radically autonomous individuals?

Also, lawyers as a group are not representative of the greater population, most notably that they are often highly autonomous individuals.

Although everyone has different comfort levels when it comes to personal boundaries, a good boundary allows both you and your loved one to function as autonomous individuals.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

Based on his study of lichens, Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener was the first scientist to propose that some organisms are not autonomous individuals but combinations of unrelated species that work together.

They are communitarians, that is, «if philosophical liberals are those who believe that all our problems can be solved by autonomous individuals, a market economy, and a procedural state, whereas communitarians believe that more substantive ethical identities and a more active participation in a democratic polity are necessary for the functioning of any decent society.»

As for the more historically grounded covenantal relationships between God and peoples, the only role left for them and the patterns of ritualized culture they had produced was that there be selected from among them those practices that could be justified as contributing to the overall functioning of the ethically autonomous individual.

No human being then is an absolutely autonomous individual who ought to be able to live his or her life without reference to any higher or more demanding truth in order to be complete, to be happy and to be free.

These are a people who pragmatically piece together a jumble of disconnected and sometimes contradictory bits of belief and practice as they» supposedly autonomous individuals» see fit.

At least in this sphere of life we do not come together as autonomous individuals freely contracting with each other.

Rather than trusting God to direct and guide them within their natural limits, they tried to become autonomous individuals.

If my analysis is fundamentally accurate, liberalism's endgame is unsustainable in every respect: It can not perpetually enforce order upon a collection of autonomous individuals increasingly shorn of constitutive social norms, nor can it continually provide endless material growth in a world of limits.

The right embraces a market orthodoxy that places the choosing, autonomous individual at the center of its economic theory and accepts the larger liberal frame in which the only alternative to this free - market, individualist orthodoxy is statism and collectivism.

The nearly overnight creation «of a wholly modern, individualistic society,» Furet points out, posed a new and monumental problem: Just how would these free, sovereign, equal, and wholly autonomous individuals be related to and united with one another?

In John Courtney Murray's delightful sketch, Locke, and with him all Enlightenment political thinkers, believed that society was a product of artifice, not nature: societies exist only because autonomous individuals have agreed to live together for their mutual benefit.

We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals.

In July, after one recent demonstration, the company announced that the anticipated cost of operating the SunCell is so low — about 1 to 10 % of that for any other existing form of power — that the company «intends to provide autonomous individual power for essentially all stationary and motive applications untethered to the grid or any fuels infrastructure.»

Playfully assaulting the construct of the rational, coherent, autonomous individual in his solo exhibition «You Have Nothing To Worry About,» Andy Fedak's new stereoscopic (3D)...

Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into.

Humans exist in relationship with God not as autonomous individuals but as creatures subject to the sovereignty of God and obedient to the divine will.

Bellah and his colleagues contend that the Lockean ideal of the autonomous individual was originally embedded in a complex moral ecology that included the family and the church on the one hand, and on the other a vigorous public sphere in which economic initiative was expected to engender public spirit.

Daniel: In making individual freedom the highest good of our culture, I don't think we have produced free people, but autonomous individuals... It is also called lonely.

In making individual freedom the highest good of our culture, I don't think we have produced free people, but autonomous individuals.

Procedural rationalization consists of the procedures that autonomous individuals must agree on if they are to «live together in disagreement»; it preserves their autonomy while allowing pressing collective decisions to be made.

The self is too changeable and contingent and interior a thing for that, and too tied to a romantic view of the isolated and autonomous individual, to tell us adequately about the individual.

• The focus on the autonomous individual to the neglect of institutions of civil society, especially family.

For most people, religion is a communal and public commitment, underscoring the fact that the person is not simply an isolated, autonomous individual but a person in solidarity with others.

Moreover, so long as self - righteousness is judged to be a moral state deriving from an isolated and autonomous individual, there lies no way to a comprehension of its ultimate ground and its universal consequences.

In the end, the very public edifice that private, autonomous individuals have supposedly erected to protect themselves from themselves abandons all of them by refusing to protect each one of them.

A faction, for Madison, is defined not by how much it would encroach upon the autonomous individual but by its dedication to moral and political principles inimical to sound and just governance.

The schools seek to teach students to be autonomous individuals, who can make their own judgments about moral questions.

The influence of the Enlightenment, which among other things proclaimed that everyone was an autonomous individual, has an immediate effect on Christianity and on Protestantism in particular.

The mediating institutions stand between the autonomous individual and the «megastructures» of society, beginning with the state but including also corporate structures and others.

My concern here is not to defend the notion of the autonomous individual» a problematic enough notion, but one for which there is at least something to be said» but, instead, to puzzle over the casual nature of Meier's judgment.

It turns out, I fear, that Meier's scientific historian is the isolated, autonomous individual» dependent on his own insight to eke out an account that seems rational to him.

To my mind, the modern, «nonauthoritarian,» «take - us - or - leave - us» style of pastoring owes more to the liberal world view — with its concept of the autonomous individual — than it does to any theological perspective.

Marriage is seen as the state setting its seal on a romantic / sexual / emotional partnership between two autonomous individuals.