Self-determination Sentence Examples

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  • The supreme end prescribed by reason in its practical aspect, namely, the complete subordination of the empirical side of nature to the prescripts of morality, demands, as conditions of its possible realization, the permanence of ethical progress in the moral agent, the certainty of freedom in self-determination, and the necessary harmonizing of the spheres of sense and reason through the intelligent author or ground of both.

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  • There can be no real self-determination under imperialist domination.

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  • I think that if we follow some very basic and simple guidelines then we will not violate another right to self determination.

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  • The right of self-determination of peoples must also be respected.

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  • For the motive which may be said to be its cause lies in the man himself, and the identification of the self with such a motive is a self-determination, which is at once both rational and free.

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  • The purpose of these principles is to unite African communities through self-determination within a multicultural context.

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  • The external legal forms of the union were marriages, inheritance and election; it was essentially the self-determination of the nations which brought them together.

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  • Upon his view the intellect must always be subordinate to the will, and to the will belongs the power of complete self-determination.

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  • The advocates of self-determination maintain that conduct is never determined, in the sense in which, e.g.

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  • And no account of the psychology of human action which regards conduct as due to self-determination, but leaves open the question whether the self is free to choose is, so it is argued, capable of providing an adequate theory of the admitted facts of moral consciousness.

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  • We may notice, in the first place, that the conception of morality as a code which, if not in itself arbitrary, is yet to be accepted by men with unquestioning submission, tends naturally to bring into prominence the virtue of obedience to authority; just as the philosophic view of goodness as the realization of reason gives a special value to self-determination and independence (as we see more clearly in the post-Aristotelian schools where ethics is distinctly separated from politics).

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  • On the contrary, the only way in which the peoples of the Balkans can really exercise self-determination is by uniting.

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  • Socialists also support the right of self-determination for the Kurdish people.

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  • The theoretical proof rather serves as useful aid towards the more exact determination of the nature and province of self-determination, and of its relation to the whole concrete nature of humanity.

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  • For in man self-determination and mechanical determination by empirical motives coexist, and only in so far as he belongs and is conscious of belonging both to the sphere of sense and to the sphere of reason does moral obligation become possible for him.

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  • The nations of Scotland and Wales have the right of self-determination up to and including secession.

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  • The Albanians there are winning the battle of the cradle and already there are increasingly vocal demands for self-determination and possible secession.

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  • October 21 1999 Protestant veto - Lenin opposed self-determination for the British-Irish, writes Tom Delargy.

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  • We need a commitment of service providers to promote self-determination.

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  • We have seen that the lobby supporting female reproductive self-determination was sidelined by the lobbying activities of the medical establishment.

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  • Writing an article or speaking in support of Kashmiri, Tamil or Kurdish self-determination could be construed as inviting support for a proscribed organization.

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  • For national self-determination to fully work, India would have to be governed by the Indians living there.

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  • He believed the time had come to strike for Irish national self-determination.

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  • In the 19th century, for example, Scottish society was deeply divided over the right to democratic self-determination in the Presbyterian church.

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  • It is worthy of note that the Resolution of Fiume anticipated the modern doctrine of self-determination by the very explicit assertion that " every nation has the right to decide freely and independently concerning its existence and its fate."

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  • Modern psychology has strengthened the contention for a fixed connexion between motive and act by reference to subconscious and unconscious processes of which Edwards, who thought that nothing could affect the mind which was unperceived, little dreamed; at the same time, at least in some of its developments, especially in its freer use of genetic and organic conceptions, it has rendered much in the older forms of statement obsolete, and has given a new meaning to the idea of self-determination, which, as applied to an abstract power, Edwards rightly rejected as absurd.

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  • As long as these states were to share a currency, a military, provide for interstate trade, and have a single foreign policy, they could retain the economic advantages of being a large nation while maximizing individual liberty and self-determination.

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  • Anything that creates a more intertwined world without compromising autonomy, self-rule, and self-determination is good for peace.

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  • The benefits of civilization—from wealth to individual liberty and self-determination, from better health to safety and peace—all outweigh what its proponents can offer.

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  • The Palestinian people are still far from achieving the self-determination to which they are entitled.

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  • The present Intifada is the popular expression of the failure of the Oslo agreements to achieve Palestinian self-determination.

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  • Genuine ethnic self-determination, however, was never an option.

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  • The continuing and necessary support given to the people of Palestine in their fight for self-determination on the basis of United Nations Resolution 242.

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  • Then, drawing on self-determination theory, teaching practices that enable pupils to cope well with temporary failure are briefly described.

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  • Self-determination in the world has resulted not in peace but in new boundaries bristling with bayonets.

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  • The right of self-determination of any nation according to the UN Charter must be guaranteed.

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  • It was itself a form of self-determination by the people of the island of Ireland.

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  • The three groups communicated secretly through Switzerland, and it was felt that the time had come for the exiles to take a fresh step forward, in view of the prominence given to the doctrine of self-determination since the Russian Revolution and America's entry into the war.

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  • After affirming that the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes constitute a single nation and appealing to the right of self-determination, it declared in favour of complete national unity under the Karagjorgjevic dynasty, " a constitutional democratic and parliamentary monarchy, equality of the three national names and flags, of the Cyrilline and Latin alphabets, and of the Orthodox Catholic and Mussulman religions, equal rights for all citizens, universal suffrage in parliamentary and municipal life, and the freedom of the Adriatic to all nations."

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  • This construction, or self-determination, is what Fichte called positing (setzen).

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  • To explain the universe Spinoza proceeds to argue that God, though undetermined ab extra, is capable of infinite self-determination.

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  • The attainment of the higher stage of development is the moral and religious vocation of man; this higher stage is self-determination, the performance of every human function as a voluntary and intelligent agent, or as a person, having as its cosmical effect the subjection of all material to spiritual existences.

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  • Rather we see a socialism which protects cultural diversity and upholds self-determination for all nations.

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