Sentence examples for acting subjects from inspiring English sources

Thus logic is born from the demand to adhere to common social norms which shape the human herd into a society of knowing and acting subjects.

For Habermas, rationality consists not so much in the possession of particular knowledge, but rather in "how speaking and acting subjects acquire and use knowledge" (TCA, 1: 11).

For Habermas, rationality consists not so much in the possession of knowledge and thus primarily concerned with the consistency and content of one's beliefs, but rather in "how speaking and acting subjects acquire and use knowledge" (Habermas, 1984, 11).

For Habermas, for example, rationality consists not so much in the possession of particular knowledge, but rather in "how speaking and acting subjects acquire and use knowledge" (Habermas 1984, 11).

The position of chronically ill patients as participating and acting subjects will be fostered; this will make a contribution to the improvement of primary health care especially for socially disadvantaged patients by means of a changed, participating communication and increasing competence levels in self-management.

He dreams back to a time before Playgirl centerfolds, Chippendale dancers, Calvin Klein underwear ads and RuPaul, back, back before Richard Nixon lost an election because his face was a national eyesore, back to a time when the American moral fiber was held together by the strict segregation of men and women into acting subjects and passive objects.

This self-determination involves a sense of efficacy on the part of the acting subject, who recognizes that "I act" means that "I am the efficient cause" of my action.

While each tradition has contributed significant theoretical and practical insights, none has been able to provide a complete account of what Anthony Giddens has termed the problem of the acting subject in context.

Or we might take each aspect seriously for what they are worth in their own domains, seeing Spinoza as both a visionary thinker about the physical and a subtle and original theorist of the psychological, but one whose doctrines cannot be squared with each other, or with the sort of naturalism that sees the acting subject as fitting seamlessly into physical nature.

Ethics thus considers the object of consciousness not as something given or even as something constructed by necessary laws of consciousness, but rather as something to be produced by a freely acting subject, consciously striving to establish and to accomplish its own goals and guided only by its own self-legislated laws.

Some room for the thinking acting subject is required.