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To be free is to be absolved from all determining influences – to be self-generating, self-dependent and absolutely self-responsible.
In order to evade it, he claims that the 'conditioned freedom' of the embodied and socially embedded agent is not inimical to their autonomy, as long as the agent has a conception of their own self that they can identify with in abstraction from these determining influences.
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In contrast, determining influence is more tricky.
What his neighbors and friends felt and believed was always a powerful, and often a determining, influence on his judgment.
Unconscious psychic processes refer to feelings, desires, images, fantasies, etc., that occur outside of awareness and likely have a determining influence on our conscious mentation and behavior.
The appointment of his successor, which under the constitution lies with the president, and of that successor's confirmation, which belongs to the Senate, will have an unpredictable but determining influence on the politics of the next decade.
These examples illustrate the determining influence of photographs in shaping what catastrophes and crises we pay attention to, what we care about, and ultimately what evaluations are placed on these conflicts.
While acknowledging Coltrane as a determining influence on composer Steve Reich - who saw him play about 50 times - Ratliff tends to confine himself to jazz as a narrowly defined and increasingly atrophied musical form.
There are institutional, political, social and cultural conditions that always represent a determining influence.
Furthermore, training companies have a determining influence on the curricula of specific VET programs about branch associations (Gonon 2012, 239).
The specific nature of fluid dynamics within waste stabilisation ponds can have a determining influence on their functional treatment performance.
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