At that point, Brooks says, culture became re-centered on the self, spawning the likes of the permissive Doctor Spock and Norman Vincent Peale, whose book "The Power of Positive Thinking" "rested atop the Times [best-seller] list for an astounding ninety-eight weeks".
The reason is that, in traditional Chinese society, each person's relationship with others is based on a differential mode of association that centers on the self and then extends outwards, first to parents, spouse and siblings, and then to the extended family, to the lineage group, and finally to unrelated members of the society.
Most of us labor under a particular conception of what it is be free as being centered on the autonomous self, doing what it pleases without the restraint of priest or monarch.
This gets around the standard argument against free will centered on the impossibility of self-causation.
For the cult of saints, of course, that message was centered on God and Jesus in instructing followers about the meaning of life and how to live it; for the cult of celebrities, less obviously theological but religious through and through, that message is centered on the values of self-expression, mass appeal, and stardom.
Regenerative medicine for MS has been mainly centered on the recruitment of endogenous self-repair mechanisms, or on transplantation approaches.
The focus of our validation study centered on the concordance of patient self-reported data with medical chart information regarding disease- and treatment-related variables.
Phobic prone individuals rely predominantly on basic emotions and are characterized by a sense of permanence of Self predominantly centered on the visceral reading of emotional states.
The research in [6] is centered on the case of the 2-cyclic self-mapping being defined on the union of two subsets of the metric space.
The show is called According To What? and it is centered on the issues of freedom of speech, self-expression and other basic human rights (or lack thereof) in China and around the world.
