Sentence examples for determined oneself from inspiring English sources

One is free merely to the degree that one has effectively determined oneself and the shape of one's life (Taylor, 1979).

A plurality of alternatives is open to one, and one determines, oneself, which alternative one pursues.

Persons are free; what distinguishes them is their will, a faculty of determining oneself to action (4:427).

The specific task of Fichte's ethics is therefore, first of all, to deduce the categorical imperative (in its distinctively moral sense) from the general obligation to determine oneself freely, and, second, to deduce from this the particular obligations that apply to every free and finite rational being.

He seems as determined to goad as he is to entertain, and is so accomplished at both that one tends to find oneself in a state of weirdly mingled enjoyment and dislike at almost every juncture of his work.

But it isn't, because productivity is responding to rather than determining the level of wages.The only way to get tight labour markets and fast productivity growth in a low-inflation-targeting world is to get lucky, and to find oneself in a robust phase of job growth just as a wave of global disinflation hits.

Being able to live with oneself determines how one stops from misbehaving.

It was also determined that lower parental satisfaction (relating to satisfaction with oneself as a parent, the parent child relationship, and the child's behaviours) and communication problems within the family were similarly associated with lower parental well-being at baseline.