单词 | self-law |
释义 | self-lawn. The action or fact of making or following rules deriving from one's own ideas of morality, ethics, etc., or rules which suit oneself; a body of rules of this type. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun] > one who does what he wishes > a rule of one's own making self-law1654 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 365 It is Selfe-Law, or if you will, love God, so as not to lose by him, and thy Neighbour for thy selfe. a1680 S. Charnock Two Disc. (1699) 28 [They] are so much a Law to themselves, that 'tis difficult to persuade them..to part with this Self-law in matter of Justification. 1844 M. Roalfe Law Breaking Justified 5 Could a society be..composed exclusively of individuals with characters so admirably balanced, as really to be a law unto themselves, the necessity of any other than self law, would no longer be felt. 1860 J. Grossmith Govt. upon First Princ. lvii. 179 Listening to the suggestion of the animal nature of self law—individual law, listening to the self natural human power, which is always false. 1945 Sewanee Rev. 53 16 The solitary may take to debauchery and self-law. 1987 S. Theron Morals as founded on Nat. Law iii. 82 This is what makes the concept of absolute individual autonomy (self law)..inherently futile. 2001 W. Desmond Ethics & Between iv. 160 The giving of freedom is not first either obedience or autonomy; it is not being subject to the law as other or to self-law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654 |
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