Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority.
In it Marx captures not only the agency of human endeavor, but reminds us of how even the most powerful people are constrained by time and space, by geography and history.
Follow the logic of what Wordsworth called the "unrelenting agency" of human consciousness to its conclusion and any distinction between the natural and the synthetic breaks down, because everything that is in the universe is part of nature, including modern consciousness.
From the perspective of ecology and activity theory, this assumption is tremendously naïve because it neglects the agency of human analysts as users who decide how they will perform their work.
Thus the Super Bowl effort -- and ours at home -- must include a grassroots effort respecting the agency of human trafficking victims and survivors, so that they are empowered to escape and supported as they assist in prosecuting their offenders.
Accordingly, wildlife management should no longer focus on the sole agency of humans; it must also examine the agency of animals and the influence of the landscape in which the interactions takes place.
Id, in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, one of the three agencies of the human personality, along with the ego and superego.
Obama has taken more of an agency view of human rights, emphasizing such rights as freedom of expression and the right to protest, recognizing that human rights reform can only come from below and not imposed from above.
Due to vigilant monitoring programs by government agencies, intoxication of humans is now rare.
According to the third claim, all instances of agency, including all instances of human agency, can and should be explained without the ascription of representational mental states.
