Sentence examples for we constitute ourselves from inspiring English sources

At the same time, we constitute ourselves through our own choices: though the facticity of my situation creates some constraints on my possible self-interpretations, it is always up to me to decide the meaning of those constraints, and this means that what I take to be limitations are in fact produced by my own interpretations or meaning-giving activities.

In these cases, we both discover who we are "on the inside", and actively constitute ourselves.

If that is a disadvantage, it is one that we accepted when we decided, more than 200 years ago, to constitute ourselves a free people.

It is through language that we tear ourselves away from nature and constitute ourselves as a subject.

We could have done anything – we could have constituted ourselves into any strange social form imaginable – and instead we get Theresa May blandly lying about NHS spending cuts.

Over 50 years ago Marshall McLuhan wrote, "the new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute a huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics".

Put another way: if we are committed to having the system of government that the Constitution constitutes, then we obligate ourselves to do certain things -- like elect a body of senators, as described in Article I.

Human functionings are those beings and doings that we take to constitute a human life, and which are central in our understandings of ourselves as human beings.