The phrase "act of reflection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of thinking deeply about something or considering one's thoughts and feelings.
Example: "The act of reflection allowed her to gain clarity on her life choices and future goals."
Alternatives: "process of contemplation" or "moment of introspection".
Unlike "unconscious" behavior, which is by definition, inaccessible to conscious thought, our familiar behaviors that take shape across perceptual and bodily space are pre-reflective; they make reflective experience possible, for without the pre-reflective modality, the act of reflection would have nothing to turn itself toward.
Celebrating them is not only a right; it is an important act of reflection upon our selves as valuable people.
Shifting between landscapes worldly and remote, she pulls off the tricky feat of making the act of reflection suspenseful, turning the past into a living, unfinished thing, still bristling with what could be.
It takes a distinct act of reflection in order to provide the sort of self-reference necessary for making moral judgments about one's own actions (Thiel 1991 92 24).
For language begins simultaneously with "the first act of reflection", Humboldt argues, and "precisely when man awakens from the stupor of desire (Dumpfheit der Begierde), in which the subject devours the object, to self-consciousness, the word is there also the first impulse, as it were, which man gives himself to stand still, to look around and to orient himself".
By embedding her own experiences and perceptions into her designs, Ko's pieces project new images through the act of reflection.
When we engage in primary reflection without proceeding to the synthesizing, recollecting act of secondary reflection, we fall victim to what Marcel calls the spirit of abstraction.
If secondarily, in an act of introspective reflection I begin to examine my perceptual experience, I will recognize it as my perceptual experience only because I have been pre-reflectively aware of it, as I have been living through it.
Buber assumed that only by entering into the act of self-reflection can the philosophical anthropologist become aware of human wholeness based on a structural distinction between epochs of human habitation and epochs of human homelessness.
But in an act of self-reflection, through grasping (in Weyl's words) "what I am for myself", the Ego comes to recognize that it has a function, namely as "conscious-existing carrier of the world of phenomena".
In response to this criticism, the German parliament as a political actor established an Enquete Commission, which had the explicit mission to challenge the growth paradigm: a remarkable act of self-reflection.
