Yet, we forgo this excitement in favor of a safer arrangement in which we regard our partners as extensions of ourselves, instead of appreciating them for
the autonomous individuals they are.
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.
Personally, I look for passionate, hardworking, reliable and
autonomous individuals.
Also, lawyers as a group are not representative of the greater population, most notably that they are often highly
autonomous individuals.
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.
The notion of
autonomous individuals responsible for their personal choices is widely held among US policymakers, the media and the general public and is of course quite compatible with the assumptions of economics and psychology.
In the piece entitled Individual he questions the notion of sovereignty and the possibility for a group of people who declare independency for a reason, to still remain
autonomous individuals.
Animals are not property; they are
autonomous individuals, individuals who should be given legal rights, chief among them the right to live.
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.
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.
Modern culture tends to affirm two related things about human beings: first, that we are
autonomous individuals, belonging to ourselves and accountable only to ourselves; second, that we are basically good by nature.
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.
Jefferson believed the republic depended on the participation of
autonomous individuals, each capable of making up his own mind and carrying his own responsibility.
To what extent is society required to help facilitate the choices of radically
autonomous individuals?
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.
Marriage is seen as the state setting its seal on a romantic / sexual / emotional partnership between two
autonomous individuals.
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.
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?
How would a community discover or create within itself that history - based estimate of ideals broad enough to bring
autonomous individuals and diverse groups together into a new harmony?
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.
Rather than trusting God to direct and guide them within their natural limits, they tried to become
autonomous individuals.
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.
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.
Two
autonomous individuals enter into a limited liability partnership that can easily be dissolved.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
No one can ever be
an autonomous individual: to be so one would have to remove all those other relationships; but then I would no longer be «me» - I would no longer exist.
• The focus on
the autonomous individual to the neglect of institutions of civil society, especially family.
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.
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.
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 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.
But here his logic compels him to go further: implicit in our understanding of death is the ideology of
the autonomous individual, in short, our anthropology.
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.
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.
Rather than releasing
the autonomous individual and placing him in a context of genuine participatory community, socialism has been seen as a system that crushes the individual under a centralized bureaucratic structure even more effectively than corporate capitalism.
But in the post-modern fantasy world there is no right or wrong, no inversions or perversions, no sexual neuroses or psychoses, just whatever
the autonomous individual chooses or consents to in his / her totally relativistic world.
The fluid social construct of «gender» is entered by way of the choices of
the autonomous individual.
For example, in America the newborn is viewed as entirely dependent upon its mother, yet the desired end - goal is for that baby to be an independent and
autonomous individual.
A conversation with Ashish Ghadiali, film - maker, party activist,
autonomous individual, about reinventing politics through culture and democracy.
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)...
I suggest, perhaps absurdly, that Vincench's idiosyncratic constructions are symbolic self - portraits — highly personal expressive assertions of his individuality, both as an abstract artist and
autonomous individual, in subliminal defiance of a tightly controlled society and authoritarian ideology.
The ideal candidate will: Have a good knowledge and awareness in Recruitment Industry Have a successful track record of success in previous recruitment roles Be a self - motivated /
autonomous individual Demonstrate recruitment consultancy and people management experience Will be able to manage and build relationships with internal staff and clients Have excellent communication, analytical, negotiation skills Be confident in managing and leading a successful team Ability to focus and prioritise and have strong self - motivation Forthright, driven and you will definitely be a self starter and finisher.
Not exact matches
«Elon is right that a network of vehicles is critical, but the transition to an
autonomous future will not occur primarily through individually owned cars,» he writes, explaining that
Individual car owners won't feel comfortable renting vehicles to strangers.
In particular, when you applaud the exercise of
autonomous judgment or freedom by some
individual, group, or company, ask whether you would still applaud it if the
individual, group, or company had values different from your own.
Looking towards an
autonomous future, transportation will no longer be centered on the traditional concept of
individual car ownership in favor of a new era of «smart» transportation and on - demand mobility services.