self-understanding
Britishnoun
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “The Mattering Instinct” is an attempt to place human self-understanding on a new footing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The very basis of our self-understanding is on the line.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
The story of identity formation is deeply personal, based on the sedimentation of experience, self-understanding, and the ascriptions of others.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023
Simply put: The deliberate forgetting of America’s history plays a crucial role in the self-understanding of White Americans.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
Even a child's own tempers, faults, and successes are of the greatest value to himself and to the teacher in a proper self-understanding and mastery.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
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