Sentence examples for discussions of self from inspiring English sources
Neuroscientists have long resisted discussions of "self" as either hopelessly woolly-headed or just too difficult to tackle, says Jonathan Schooler, a psychologist at UC Santa Barbara who studies the wandering mind (with the assistance of Mrazek, a graduate student he advises).
Seneca's discussions of self-improvement raise a further question: Does Seneca discover the self (or, as Veyne puts this question, "the I"; Veyne 2003)?
Laurence Thomas (1989) uses Aristotle's discussions of self-love and friendship to argue that friendship helps to develop and maintain good moral character.
The remaining sermons consider a number of key features of moral psychology — self-deception, benevolence, forgiveness, compassion — and further develop the discussions of self-love and virtue initiated in the first three sermons.
Butler concluded the Sermons with a discussion of human ignorance, which in conjunction with his discussions of self-deceit underscored one of his central themes: the limits of human self-knowledge and knowledge of divine design, limits that had to be continuously in mind when making moral arguments.
WASHINGTON -- A seven-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Monday turned from immigration reform's merits to discussions of self-deportation, the Bible and the bombing in Boston.
Care included not only herbal prescriptions but also dietary and lifestyle advice and discussion of self care in an evolving therapeutic relationship.
(For additional discussion of self awareness and metacognition, readers are referred to the section on theory of mind and metacognition in the entry on animal cognition).
More importantly, the phenomenological discussion of self is inline with the patient-centered approach that has become fashionable in many of the heath professions.
In an attempt to further improve professional behaviour assessment, the triangulated teacher-led discussion of self- and peer-assessment of professional behaviour using a paper form is the contemporary practice at Maastricht medical school (van Mook and van Luijk 2010).
