0 the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from other people: --
2 of or by yourself or itself: --
a self-winding watch
self-educated
3 who a person is, including the qualities such as personality and ability that make one person different from another: --
4 used to form words that describe something or someone as doing something themselves: --
a self-winding watch
5 written on cheques, official documents, business letters, etc. to refer to yourself: --
Ethics are the preconditions for society, which is, in turn, the precondition for the creation of selves.
If it is, then it is hard to see why the state should have any concern for older selves.
Alternatively, there may be a "discordant splitting" if one's different selves are experienced as contradictory.
The mind was the 'zone of engagement' for the dynamics of attachment and detachment which articulated the relations of courtly selves.
In search of new selves : accommodating to widowhood.
Such facts comprise an important part of who they are, their natures or selves.
Instead, each of the person's contingent selves should have a say.
In both these examples my future selves are contingent, which means that only the past and present preferences should rule.