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self-determiˈnation Metaph.
[self- 1 a.]
1. Determination of one's mind or will by itself towards an object.
1683–6J. Scott Chr. Life ii. vii. §5 Wks. 1718 I. 406 As necessary Agents, that have no Free-will or Principle of Self-determination. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. xvii. §4 The ideas of men and self-determination appear to be connected. 1842Manning Serm. iv. (1848) I. 59 Our fearful and wonderful inward nature..has a power of self-determination. 1870–2Liddon Some Elem. of Relig. iii. 89 It is your will which, by a voluntary self-determination, caused the movement of the muscles of your arm.
2. Pol. The action of a people in deciding its own form of government; free determination of statehood, postulated as a right (see quot. 1929).
1911Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 653/1 The more enlightened of the emperors..made a genuine endeavour to give a due share in the work of government to the various subject races. But nothing could compensate for the lack of self-determination. 1917Times 28 Dec. 8/1 According to the declarations of..the quadruple alliance, protection of the right of minorities forms an essential component part of the constitutional right of peoples to self-determination. 1918Woodrow Wilson in N.Y. Times 12 Feb. 1/5 National aspirations must be respected; peoples may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. ‘Self-determination’ is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. 1929W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. xi. 203 Although the expression ‘Self⁓determination’ will rightly be forever connected with the name of President Wilson, the idea was neither original nor new. The phrase itself is Fichte's ‘Selbst bestimmung’. 1946D. L. Sayers Unpopular Opinions 100 Eire demanded self-determination... Northern Ireland also wanted self-determination, and was determined to remain with England. 1959E. H. Carr Socialism in One Country II. iv. xxi. 278 It was not only in Soviet Russia that a potential clash could be discerned between the claims of national self-determination and the claims of economic progress. 1968‘J. le Carre’ Small Town in Germany x. 162 The Yanks are going crazy about self-determination. Why don't they try it in East Germany? 1976Ld. Home Way Wind Blows xii. 168 ‘Self-determination’ was a slogan to which the Soviet leaders paid lip-service.
So self-deˈtermined ppl. a., determined by oneself; having the quality of self-determination; self-deˈtermining vbl. n., = self-determination 1; self-deˈtermining ppl. a., determining one's own acts; possessing self-determination.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. vii. §22 It is not doubted that man is accountable, that he acts, and is *self-determined. 1898Illingworth Divine Immanence i. §1 We are self-determined; since, from the objects that occur to us, we can choose the one which we shall make our own.
1683J. Corbet Free Actions ii. 15 The Natural Liberty of the Will is..an Indetermination with a Power of *self-determining. 1853Pulsford tr. J. Müller's Chr. Doctr. Sin II. 33 The self-determining of the free will.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. iii. §7 To give man the freedom of his actions, and a *self-determining power. c1714Arbuthnot, etc. Mem. M. Scribl. i. xii. Pope's Wks. 1741 II. 44 Every animal is conscious of some individual self-moving, self-determining principle. 1853Grote Greece ii. xc. XI. 700 A free self-determining political aggregate. 1864Pearson Div. Pers. (1865) 1 Is God a self-determining agent apart from the world? 1874Carpenter Mental Phys. i. i. (1879) 28 We have within us a self-determining Power which we call Will. |
