self-determinism

I think self-determinism is also a fundamental right.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Iran and the Shortcomings of International Human Rights Law 2010

And so, if the age of humanism, overlapping roughly with the Renaissance, marked the celebration by man of his own intellectual and artistic dominion, his self-determinism and his ability, rather than being enslaved to feudal lord or divine despot, to own himself and his actions, then the post-human age, by evolving cyborgian characteristics in us, reverses those advances.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

And so, if the age of humanism, overlapping roughly with the Renaissance, marked the celebration by man of his own intellectual and artistic dominion, his self-determinism and his ability, rather than being enslaved to feudal lord or divine despot, to own himself and his actions, then the post-human age, by evolving cyborgian characteristics in us, reverses those advances.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

I think self-determinism is also a fundamental right.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Iran and the Shortcomings of International Human Rights Law 2010

Gossip Girl represents nothing less than the soft death of youth culture and rebellion and self-determinism.

Lesley M. M. Blume: 15 Going On 50: How Gossip Girl is Killing Youth Culture 2008

They hadn't actually done anything at this point other than express a degree of desire for self-determinism.

5 teenagers buried alive for wanting to choose their own husband. Ann Althouse 2008

And that is a frustrating truth for someone who is not "normal" of body yet wishes to lead an ordinary life without assumptions being made about her that will interfere with her happiness and self-determinism.

I want to know Kay Olson 2007

It is amazing that our country, that responded so valiantly to the London bombings, is submitting to the subversion of our power and our self-determinism with so little fight.

This blogging thing... 2005

It is amazing that our country, that responded so valiantly to the London bombings, is submitting to the subversion of our power and our self-determinism with so little fight.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Indeed, the very concept of rational self-determinism is challenged by this dark fantasy of domestic violence.

The King of Weird Oates, Joyce Carol 1996