Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thinking for one's self; forming one's own opinions, and not borrowing them ready-made from others, or merely following prevalent fashions of thought; of independent judgment.
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Examples
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However, Novalis's emphasis on intellectual responsibility, self-thinking, and autonomy speaks clearly of a responsiveness to this dimension of Fichte's work.
Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009
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Here we see the Arabic version undoing, to some extent, Plotinus 'distinction between Aristotle's self-thinking intellective god and the truly first, highest principle.
The Theology of Aristotle Adamson, Peter 2008
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With respect to deity, that kind of goodness is Aristotle's Prime Mover: "self-thinking thought" that moves all else only as a model for imitation.
Archive 2007-12-01 Mike L 2007
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With respect to deity, that kind of goodness is Aristotle's Prime Mover: "self-thinking thought" that moves all else only as a model for imitation.
Advent discipline: the right atheism Mike L 2007
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Plus, as a long-time visitor and admirer of UU congregations, I highly appreciate the gentle, good-hearted, fair-minded community of UU thinkers who already profess an accepting encouragement for self-thinking, and self-led learning.
Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: JLA's 'fascist' prophecy. 2007
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Let me add to Zakaria's analysis a fitting definition of any -- not only Muslim -- fundamentalism by the German author, Thomas Meyer: "Fundamentalism is a man's self-incurred emergence from the hard demands of self-thinking, self-responsibility ... the uncertainty and openness [of modernism] ... into the security and closeness of arbitrarily chosen absolute fundamentals."
Mail Call 2007
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The Pentagon wants to eliminate the human factor and use self-thinking robotic vehicles to ferry supplies in war zones.
Robotic Race Zoe Brain 2005
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The Pentagon wants to eliminate the human factor and use self-thinking robotic vehicles to ferry supplies in war zones.
Archive 2005-10-01 Zoe Brain 2005
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Then, it becomes a self-organizing process connected directly to the willingness of people—self-initiated, self-thinking, and self-controlled.
Results FROM THE Heart Kiyoshi Suzaki 2002
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Selfishness and self-thinking lead inevitably to depression and self-pity.
The Shepherd’s Song Dr. Lynn Anderson 1996
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