self-realiˈzation Philos.
[self- 1 a.]
The fulfilment by one's own efforts of the possibilities of development of the self.
| 1874 W. Wallace Logic of Hegel xxi. p. clx, This process..may be called self-realisation (or development). 1876 F. H. Bradley Eth. Studies ii. 59 What remains is to point out the most general expression for the end in itself, the ultimate practical ‘why’; and that we find in the word self-realization. Ibid. 75 There is self-realization in all action. 1907 Illingworth Doctr. Trin. xii. 245 This realisation for which the Christian looks, while it is the realization of himself, is not self-realisation. For..it is not in the last resort his own achievement, but the gift of God. |