Boys engaging in problem behaviors prioritized self-enhancement values, whereas, girls engaging in problem behaviors placed a high value on openness to change, suggesting a difference in motivational goals [ 46, 47].
It's a practice to follow through and prioritize self expression.
Instead of prioritizing the moral law over all other incentives, she prioritizes self-love over the moral law.
Most contemporary theorists reject Kant's view that the worst form of evil involves prioritizing self-interest over the moral law (See, e.g., Card 2010, 37 and 2002; Garrard 2002; Kekes 2005).
Whether, and to what extent, a person, or her will, is evil seems to depend on details about her motives and the harms she brings about and not just on whether she prioritizes self-interest over the moral law.
Like the beasts of the pits, we are still occupied by self-preservation, but 1,935 years later, all too many of us prioritize self-documentation over life itself.
Wellness programs don't work unless you create a culture in which it is acceptable and encouraged to prioritize self-care.
There are alternatives to Al-Anon, like SMART for Family and Friends, which offers tools and support options to reconnect while still prioritizing self-care.
The conjectured process that many are characterizing as intolerable doesn't strike me as more objectionable than the tendency of most elected representatives to prioritize self-interest or party-interest over what's best for the public.
Georgetown's Director of Health Education Services Carol Day adds, "We are trying to encourage a campus climate of sleep adequacy by sharing the facts about sleep with students in a variety of ways and urging them to prioritize self-care by not taking on so many things to do that demands on their time exceed the time students have to give.
Our study found that boys gave higher priority than girls to self-enhancement values, whereas girls prioritize self-transcendence values.
