He further claims that perception is correlated to and accompanied by proprioceptive-kinaesthetic self-sensation or self-affection (Husserl 1973c).
We find the idea of auto-affection (or self-affection) in ancient Greek philosophy, for example in Aristotle's definition of God as "thought thinking itself".
On the one hand, Shaftesbury admits that even the natural and certainly the self-affections can be dysfunctional and excessive.
On the other, he argues that what will lead to the greatest happiness of an intelligent creature is to cultivate the natural affections, along with a due proportion of self-affections.
As for developing more patience with you, self-permission and self-affection, I will be writing much more about this in the coming year.
Kate Valk's lips, via one of two video monitors hanging from the ceiling, had a sultry, sometimes creepy cameo as "This Girl," the remote object of Mr. Schneider's distracted, self-involved affection.
A different twist is provided by Rousseau's contrast between two kinds of self-directed affection, amour de soi and amour propre, of which the former, but not the latter seems consistent with compassion for others.
That look in Luke's eyes at the end of the film is a mixture of fear, regret, self-incrimination, affection.
Scan back over your life and notice some of the many times when there was love in your heart -- expressed one way or another, including generosity, kindness, patience, teamwork, self-restraint, affection, and caring.
It also suggests that there may be genuine differences of kind among self-directed affections, differences that will generate very different reflective affections and lead us to attribute to some a moral worth lacked by mere selfishness.
And our lack of scruple is only amplified by the love of pets, which inculcate in us the desire for easy-going, cost-free and self-congratulatory affections towards the animal kingdom, and which thereby threaten the rest of nature.
