Ms. Ross is the antithesis of an aging diva reflectively considering her life and loves.
Arneson argues, however, that people surely vary in this capacity as well — the ability to reflectively consider options and choose sensibly from among them.
Therefore, social conditions that hamper the equal enjoyment of capacities to reflectively consider and (if necessary) reject principles of social justice, due, say, to extreme poverty, disability, ongoing injustice and inequality, or the like, restrict the establishment of just principles.
But as long as she has not lost the basic ability to reflectively consider her options and make choices, if I intervene against her will (for her own good), I show less respect for her as a person than if I allow her to make her own mistakes.
Encounters with people such as those with poliomyelitis, caregivers at care facilities, and ordinary citizens obliged participants to reflectively consider the definitions of human beings and the self.
Since the self as pre-reflectively experienced is the basis of all phenomenal features of our experience, it must be considered as basic and fundamental for any subsequent cognitive activity.
In other of the cases that we considered, it's not so easy to know which answer is the one that we reflectively endorse.
It is designed to develop active autonomous learners who can think reflectively and take responsibility (Wen & Tsai 2006).
By considering and criticizing the ideas and arguments of these philosophers, the aim is to cultivate our own ability to think systematically, rationally, and reflectively, and to make up our own minds about how to answer these kinds of questions.
In this aroused fight-or-flight state, our prefrontal cortex, which helps us think reflectively and creatively, begins to shut down.
"I'm not very reflective," he said reflectively.
