Sentences with phrase «voluntarist self»
If the first often leads to an abstracted, voluntarist self, the second leads to an enforced collective solidarity.
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The Franciscan schools tended to be «voluntarist» in prioritising the will as the primary faculty by which we grasp God's Self - revelation to us, whereas the Dominican school, with St. Thomas Aquinas as its greatest champion, gave priority to the intellect.
Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.
Sandel contrasts this «voluntarist» view with a «cognitive» one, in which «the ends of the self are given in advance... [and] the subject achieves self - command not by choosing that which is already given (this would be unintelligible) but by reflecting on itself and inquiring into its constituent nature, discerning its laws and imperatives, and acknowledging its purposes as its own.»
«In affluent areas, or those where there are self - interested groups that want to take over, a voluntarist approach to providing services for one's fellow citizens might have more traction,» Yeowell adds.