self-preservative

Thus there are both desirable and undesirable societal passions and desirable and undesirable self-preservative passions.

18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

All self-preservative passions, by contrast, “turn” on pain, that is, each has either pain or its felt absence of pain as a constituent (Burke 1990, 37).

18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

Even a libertarian society would have to have in place some mechanisms to encourage conformity, since no society exists without such a self-preservative mechanism.

INTERVIEW: John C. Wright 2004

Every self-preservative word that he had been meditating but an instant since dropped out of his memory.

Armadale 2003

Once the old virtues were refuted—the piety of the religious or the honor of the nobles—Hobbes and Locke assumed that most men would immediately agree that their self-preservative desires are real, that they come from within and take primacy over any other desire.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Once the old virtues were refuted—the piety of the religious or the honor of the nobles—Hobbes and Locke assumed that most men would immediately agree that their self-preservative desires are real, that they come from within and take primacy over any other desire.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

This is only a small mo-ment in the play, and it is one that Shakespeare may have decided to excise when he rewrote the play or cut it for performance, but it does suggest that some ordinary people are revolted by iniquity and are willing to act against narrowly self-preservative instincts in the name of compassion and pity.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Seidenberg's interpretation explains everything except what needs most to be explained, namely why the housewife's "salutary and self-preservative" neurosis took the form of the particular symptom in question, agora-phobia.

An Exchange on Freud and Women Cavell, Marcia 1974

Geoffrey had been neither surprised nor protesting, but a strong self-preservative sense was keeping him quiet while he husbanded all the strength he possessed.

The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952

Old instincts and movements that were once self-preservative and of serious meaning to a wild ancestor reappear in the play of children, and, utilized wisely, may under new form become a valuable possession of the adult.

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