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Self-Consciousness

a person’s awareness and evaluation of his knowledge, moral outlook and interests, ideals, and behavioral motifs; a person’s total evaluation of himself as an actor, as a feeling and thinking being. Self-consciousness is characteristic of not only individuals but also societies, classes, and social groups, when they attain an understanding of their general interests, their ideals, and their position in the system of production relations. Through self-consciousness, a person distinguishes himself from his surroundings and determines his place in the cycle of natural and social events. Self-consciousness is closely associated with reflection, in which it is raised to the level of theoretical thought. It takes shape at a certain stage of the development of the personality, under the influence of a mode of life, which demands that people monitor their actions and behavior and take full responsibility for them.

Because other people are the primary measure and point of departure for a person’s attitudes toward himself, self-consciousness is profoundly social.

A. G. SPIRKIN

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No references found	At first, on sitting down to table, we had grown momentarily shy, with one of those sudden freaks of self-consciousness which occasionally surprise one, when, midway in some slightly unconventional situation to which the innocence of nature has led us, we realise it--"for an instant and no more. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context He discussed the most intimate matters with a complete lack of self-consciousness. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context He knew love, sorrow, joy, wrath, pride, self-consciousness, humour. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context	self-ballasted lamp self-bias self-bias transistor circuit self-booting self-centering chuck self-centering lath self-chambering self-charge self-checking code self-checking number self-cleaning self-cleaning contact self-cleansing velocity self-climbing tower crane self-clinching self-clocking self-closing device self-closing fire assembly self-closing fire door self-coloured self-complementary graph self-complementing code self-conjugate particle self-conjugate partition self-conscious Self-Consciousness Self-Consistent Field self-consistent field method self-contained base-line system self-contained breathing apparatus self-contained database management system Self-Contained Electrical Power Supply self-contained night attack self-contained portable electric lamp self-contained range finder self-coved self-defence self-defense Self-Defense Force self-defocusing self-destroying self-destroying fuse self-destruct charge self-destructing e-mail self-destruction self-destruction equipment self-determination self-diagnostic routine self-differentiation Self-Diffusion self-documenting code	self-confessedly self-confession self-confessional self-confessions self-confidence self-confidence self-confidence self-confidence self-confident self-confident self-confident self-confident self-confidently self-confidently self-confrontation self-congratulation self-congratulatory Self-conjugate self-conjugate particle self-conjugate partition Self-conjugate triangle self-conquest self-conscious self-conscious self-conscious self-conscious self-consciously self-consciously self-consciously self-consciously Self-Consciousness self-consequence Self-considering Self-consistency Self-consistency self-consistent self-consistent Self-Consistent Anisotropic Field Self-Consistent Born Approximation Self-Consistent Boundary-Site Approximation Self-Consistent Charge Extended Hueckel method Self-Consistent Charge-Iterative Extended Hueckel Self-Consistent Electron-Pair Theory Self-Consistent Electrostatic Field Self-Consistent Empirical Pseudopotential Method Self-consistent field Self-consistent field Self-consistent field method Self-Consistent Field Molecular Orbital Self-Consistent Field Theory Self-Consistent Full-Potential Linearized-Augmented-Plane-Wave Self-Consistent Generator Coordinate Method Self-Consistent Local Orbital Self-Consistent Map Self-Consistent Orbital Self-Consistent Ornstein Zernike Approximation Self-Consistent Orthogonalized Plane Wave Self-Consistent Particle-Hole Propagator

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At first, on sitting down to table, we had grown momentarily shy, with one of those sudden freaks of self-consciousness which occasionally surprise one, when, midway in some slightly unconventional situation to which the innocence of nature has led us, we realise it--"for an instant and no more.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

He discussed the most intimate matters with a complete lack of self-consciousness.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

He knew love, sorrow, joy, wrath, pride, self-consciousness, humour.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

self-ballasted lamp

self-bias

self-bias transistor circuit