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capacity to give an account of itself to others, and respects those limits as symptomatically human. To take seriously one's opacity to oneself in ethical...

expressions are in common use. Terms such as playing with yourself, pleasuring oneself and slang such as wanking, jerking off, jacking off, fapping and frigging...

alcoholic. The book contends that it is impossible for an alcoholic to quit drinking by oneself. A new attitude or set of values also would not help. Whosoever...

One must pay for oneself to go. Object: Drunkenness can make one unreliable. A reputation travels with one. One must help oneself. Predicative complement:...

or knowing oneself to be mortal. In the 4th century BC, however, the maxim was drastically re-interpreted by Plato, who understood it to mean, broadly...

official capacity which involves dealing with oneself in a private capacity and which confers a benefit on oneself." Examples include "work[ing] for government...

the material reality of one's body, in a material universe, one finds oneself inserted into being. In accordance with Husserl's notion that consciousness...

domains and learn how to define the self. Comparing oneself to others socially is a form of measurement and self-assessment to identify where an individual...

Orthodox Christian term referring to a false spiritual state of holiness or a spiritual illness of believing oneself less sinful than one is. Prelest should...

inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings, sometimes as a result of focal brain damage. This disability may result from the inability to make use...

substance or behavior, and then equip oneself with the mental tools to stick to that commitment. Most important to recovering addicts is the recognition of this...

production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage...

(1999). In both films the horror lies in the "desperate fear of losing oneself in the wilderness". In both films the characters stray from "civilization"...

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors is a non-fiction book by Nicholas Wade, a science reporter for The New York Times. It was...

(connoting work on oneself) and is additional to the ways of the fakir, monk and yogi, so that his student P. D. Ouspensky referred to it as the "Fourth...

different perception of oneself relative to others. The following are forms of egocentric bias: Bias blind spot, the tendency to see oneself as less biased than...

ahead, sagacity") is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one...

gender-neutral pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person or to people in general as in one should take care of oneself. Words that derive their meaning...

known as cowing), to destabilize/undermine the other, to force compliance, to hide one's insecurities, to socially valorize oneself, etc. There are active...

most generous donors in America previous in 2003 and 2017. "Surrounding oneself with the best talent". Industr. Archived from the original on April 26...