The fate of Socrates had thus represented the ultimate incompatibility with the Greek form of life itself of the type of individual, reflective individual who could reflectively bring any belief into question and take a stand against convention.
Interestingly, Dahl does not emerge as a particularly reflective individual: his puerile humor, his lively imagination, his rebellious zeal and his determination were all strongly at odds with any analytical bent.
But his breezy, loping lines belie a watchful intelligence; the poems' ambiguities feel rooted in the meditations of a reflective individual amid everyday things — one who feels a tug of meaning at the sight of two ketchup bottles set lip to lip in a Second Avenue deli, acrobatic metaphors of balance.
In addition, the transition from poetic to rational consciousness enables reflective individuals-the philosopher, that is, in the shape of Vico-to recover the body of universal history from the particularity of apparently random events.
Recall that Hegel claims that a reflective individual who surveys the course of history will be reconciled to tragedies when he understands their contribution to progress overall.
Kant assumed that in principle each mature, reflective individual, guided by the Categorical Imperative, could reach the same conclusions about what duty requires.
The second reservation is that the reflective individual may come to feel that her society is wrong in some respect or is in what Bradley calls a "rotten" condition.
Ultimately an artist learns to notice things by him or herself, maturing as an observant and reflective individual.
Migmar, a quiet and reflective individual, was happiest when out in the field conducting health training or creating gardens to enable nomads to grow vegetables, and his favourite book is Ma Jian's 'Red Dust', an account by a Chinese dissident writer of his travels through Tibet.
"The way she was treated, the backbiting and the attacks, it was insulting," he said, adding that the extended selection process "was reflective of individuals who are not ready for prime time" and "demeaning to a lot of people".
