The links between two out of three basic psychological needs as
defined by the Self - determination Theory — the need for autonomy and competence, and school adjustment are almost universally acknowledged, however, the impact of the need for relatedness is less obvious.
Many in solar and other renewable energy industries are looking ahead to a future
defined by self - consumption of on - site generated power and energy storage.
The participating companies can determine how close their internal commodity pricing falls within «the market» as
defined by the self - reporting companies that have subscribed to Totem / Markit's service.
She mutes some of her more exaggerated ticks: She still runs her fingers through her hair, but the gesture is now essential to a character
defined by self - aware detached coolness.
The waistline is
defined by a self tying belt in matching fabric.
While youth is often
defined by self - indulgence and self - discovery, that focus begins shifting outward as we come into our own.
In fact, employees can take results to heart and begin acting to type or
defining themselves by a self - limiting label, warns Brian Little, a professor emeritus of psychology at Carleton University and current research fellow at Cambridge University.
Not exact matches
That area of life — the
self, your relationship to yourself, how you
define yourself and what you do,
by that definition, has always been something that I've been naturally curious about, wanted to talk about and wanted to share with people.
In an April, 2003, speech, Harper
defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal
self - restraint reinforced
by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»
The public's image of the vehicles will be
defined by stories like the crash in Tempe, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies
self - driving vehicles.
Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as
defined and interpreted
by a person or group who is
self - aggregating and
self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.
Merriam - Webster's online dictionary
defines «delusion» as follows: «Something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the
self or persons or objects outside the
self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also, the abnormal state marked
by such beliefs.»
These questions
define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on
by the original witnesses of God's
self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
As long as we
define our relationships
by what we shouldn't be doing, we're encouraging people to hide their shadow
selves from each other and God as they worry about not being accepted.
The document is indissolubly wed to the category «committed relationships,» which is in fact nothing but a loophole that can only be
defined - oxymoronically -
by the independent
self.
By defining a woman's
self worth as somehow tied to her sexual choices, we are of course objectifying women.
The liberation that love engenders and the claim that it lays upon us are absolutely binding; they are kerygmatic address, which, as Bultmann interprets Paul, «accosts each individual, throwing the person himself into question
by rendering his
self - understanding problematic, and demanding a decision of hint» The kerygma can be
defined as «absolute» in two respects.
I'm actually OK with being single, because I know that my
self - worth isn't
defined by a Valentine's Day card.
The individualist acts out of arbitrary
self - will and in consequence is completely
defined and conditioned
by circumstances.
Embracing this premise, I
define the
self as the capacity to achieve that state of goodness (or to reject it
by refusing to seek the Second Good).
He has no destiny, for he is
defined by things and instincts which he fulfills with arbitrary
self - will.
However, if evangelicals are to continue to be
self -
defined by their commitment to Biblical authority, their ongoing theological differences, though predictable, must be challenged.
Even if the philosophical argument does not entirely persuade, we should not therefore conclude that there is no point to Taylor's insistence that we can be
selves only
by understanding ourselves in relation to some
defining community.
The authoritative word given
by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the
defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid
self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.
Being in space and time is
defined in common - sense experience
by a law of
self - identity and of mutual exclusion.
Mod is an action
by a person in an environment, depending on legality or hinduism, illegality
by hindu atheism, criminal
self center ism, it has nothing to do with environment at large, as it is used today to
define matters, because actions of a person are subject to scrutiny individually, not collectively, bases for call to treat individual acts as individually not collectively.
According to Alan Miller, there seem to be three types of people: organized religionists whose deep quest for spiritual fulfillment is satisfied
by mindlessly memorizing their creed's dogma and putting all doubts aside; athiests who completely reject any spiritual aspect to life whatsoever; and a gaggle of wishy - washy slackers who have copped out
by not
defining themselves
by either of these rigid and
self - certain camps.
Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted
by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the
self and one «other» to the complex relations of the
self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community
defines from its more impartial perspective.5
He held that the primary meaning of love is to be found in
self - sacrifice (and was accused
by his brother Richard, among others, of
defining love too narrowly).
At the same time,
by defining freedom as freedom from my own particular past for my own particular future, I have made my difference from Goethe and the mystics
self - evident.
The idea is to
define evangelicals
by belief rather than
self - identified religious affiliation, said McConnell.
The reality of it is this: that we incline to
define ourselves, take the measure of our actuality, admit as educative and civilizing, acknowledge as relevant and powerful — only that in experience or reflection which is authenticated
by its occurrence within the biographical brackets of the
self's existence.
Nor should we belittle the possibility that theological dialogue with these movements might one day be the more fruitful because their
self - understanding is not, at least in most instances,
defined by the longstanding Protestant - Catholic antitheses of the Northern Hemisphere.
Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is
defined as something that is considered to have a so - called positive outcome, so I would think that on a personal level
self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire to die are there) and it is surely painful to the person
self - immolating (unlike e.g.
self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered
by individual persons as social sacrifice.
I do think personal being must be more broadly
defined in appropriate mentalistic, telic terms, rather than conscious -
self - conscious terms alone, but I see no good account of continuity across intermittency of consciousness
by shifting the problem to a bodily society that does not enjoy my consciousness.
Freedom is
defined as «permanent
self - determination
by the good end,» or, in Christian terms, «
by the Kingdom of God as final end.»
Whitehead
defines philosophy as «the
self - correction
by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity» (PR 15/22).
Each instance of
self - creating is said to be free to the extent that it has not been
defined in advance
by the now crystallized cases of freedom it inherits from the past.
Although a cottage industry has sprung up to
define jihad exclusively as an internal struggle to gain
self - mastery in order to act morally, the classic Muslim tradition also uses the term to denote war against unbelievers to extend the territory governed
by Islam (an idea not without its historical analogues in Christianity and Judaism).
The mother who raises (rather than aborts) a Down syndrome child is falsely made equivalent «in other contexts, with creativity» (not
by Moran, but
by the
self -
defined creative class).
Each particular part is
defined by and dependent on the total context».42 In this ecological view of a nature which includes human beings, nothing is wholly
self - subsistent.
My entire life I have performed to
define my
self worth, to gain the acceptance of others and to be loved
by God.
To keep themselves out of controversy, companies would do well to
define what they mean
by «clean label,» using it consistently throughout their marketing efforts and informing their consumers of their clean - label
self - definition.
Lorde wrote those words in 1988, but in 2017, the notion of
self - care is heavily commercialized:
defined by popular hashtags, Pinterest boards, and subscription services.
Is this
self - appointed trio of young stars Bosh, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade
defined by its 21 — 1 streak that ran from late November through early January?
And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit
self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as
defined by our work.
She saw the success in her son
defined by increasing reading ability, appropriate coping mechanisms and improving
self esteem and confidence.
It's
self - serving because «normal birth» is
defined as what midwives can do autonomously, not
by what is best for babies and mothers.
Temper tantrums
defined: A temper tantrum is an episode of extreme anger or frustration, characterized
by screaming, yelling, crying, kicking, throwing
self on the floor, and even head banging.
Of course, not all parents will do that, but the fact is a lot do, and if you're someone who's
self - worth is
defined by what others think, parenting's going to be a very difficult road for you to go down.