"mental determination" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the strength of one's mental drive or willpower in achieving a goal or overcoming a challenge. Example: Despite facing numerous obstacles, her mental determination to succeed never wavered.
It has loaded his mental determination.
Her mental determination to cultivate zest take the form of a series of mental wanderings about things and people she knows.
Very honestly, I have students at doctoral and post-doctoral level who lack Isabelle's mental determination and discipline, who don't put the energy into their work that she does".
Building Long-Term Stamina: Being a triathlete requires me to combine mental determination and physical endurance to persevere during competition.
Hutcheson understands a 'sense' receptively, as a mental determination that occurs involuntarily, and is typically attended with a perception of pleasure or pain.
For why should those with the same mental determination they displayed in life be deprived of it in the next one?
Challenges in mental capacity determination are not unique to the situation of assisted suicide.
There appeared to be a prevailing sense that this was a difficult area in mental capacity determination and in particular that separating the normal emotional response to life limiting illness and an abnormal mental state is problematic.
Mental capacity determination as set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 has surface validity for fulfilling this safeguarding role but deeper exploration of the evidence informing these recommendations shows that the ways in which mental capacity is conceptualised are diverse.
We are a people whose cultural achievements have come at great human cost – from Native removal and genocide to racially defined chattel slavery and segregation and terrorism, to the devaluation of women's rights, to bodily and mental self-determination and the consistent prioritising of an imagined "superior" leisurely class (mostly white, mostly male, mostly oppressive) over others.
According to Bublitz (2013), this complex notion, often also referred to as mental self-determination, comprises two fundamental and intimately related principles: (a) the right of individuals to use emerging neurotechnologies; (b) the protection of individuals from the coercive and unconsented use of such technologies.
