self-fulfilment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In fairy tales we associate heroic action with courage and self-fulfilment, not self-destruction.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023
Far from being indifferent to individual self-fulfilment, Long-Bailey’s aspirational socialism appears to regard collective uplift and the empowerment of working class and marginalised communities as a necessary precondition for it.
From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2020
Instead he’s tragically torn between his need for self-fulfilment and his need to fulfil his role in society, which involves taking his place in his family.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2018
And the reward of self-fulfilment: people are driven to achieve the next level on a video game, or an empty e-mail inbox.
From Economist • Dec. 30, 2014
Its finitude lies in the formalism that the spontaneity of its self-fulfilment means no more than a general and abstract ownness, not yet identified with matured reason.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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