Whites in the lower social-economic strata are less cognitively able – in Murray's view – and thus less well-equipped to resist the lure of the sexual revolution and doctrines of self-actualization so they succumb to higher rates of family dissolution, non-marital births, worklessness and criminality.
Although he acknowledged the confusion generated by the tendency to attribute to early Buddhism something analogous to the Upaniṣadic doctrine of self, Edward Conze nonetheless asserted that one's true identity is that of an Absolute, which he presumed to be none other than the Buddhist view of consciousness (1962, pp. 43, 127).
In an 1854 speech in Peoria, Illinois, Lincoln rejected Douglas' majoritarianism: "The doctrine of self government is... absolutely and eternally right--but it has no just application, as here attempted... [T]he just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed.
The two men consistently emphasized Israel's doctrine of self-reliance for such existential issues.
It is the Shackles-to-Bootstraps Doctrine of Self-Defeat that disavows any and all structural inhibitors to success.
As empires crumbled, democratic impulses were overwhelmed by a new doctrine of self-determination which enabled foreign companies to retain control.
When Alabama's immigration law was passed in the spring of 2011, it was the boldest test yet of the doctrine of self-deportation.
Emerson's own sermons, from the first, had been unusually free of traditional doctrine and were instead a personal exploration of the uses of spirit, showing an idealistic tendency and announcing his personal doctrine of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
Underlying these insurrections is the difficulty of imposing control in a society where a commendable doctrine of self-worth has hardened into a cult of self-publicity and self-obsession.
Emerson's doctrine of self-sufficiency and self-reliance naturally springs from his view that the individual need only look into his own heart for the spiritual guidance that has hitherto been the province of the established churches.
Emerson's doctrine of self-sufficiency and self-reliance arose naturally from his view that the individual need only look inward for the spiritual guidance that was previously the province of the established churches.
