0 present participle of behave
1 to act in a particular way:
Small children often behave aggressively.
Let's stay calm and try to behave like responsible adults.
I'd never behave like that in public.
She is supposed to represent herself (and write representations of) normal ways of behaving and thinking.
Empirical reports on scientific competition show that scientists can be depicted as self-interested, strategically behaving agents.
And moral insights tell us that we do not have any good reasons for behaving otherwise: for this, no self-surpassing of morality is necessary.