selflike
adjEtymology From self + -like. Compare selfly.
1
Exactly similar; corresponding.
2
Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
- But this is precisely what Shpet does: he projects onto the "word-concept" selflike qualities that are by no means necessarily foreseen in Husserl, suggesting at once that our selves are structured like it and that it is a kind of self [...]2005, Thomas Seifrid, The word made self:
- The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature.2007, William McNeill, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos:
3
Selfish; self-centered.
- Because the selflike (selbstische) universality, the subjective One (Bins) of the individuality, does not separate itself from the real particularization but is only submerged in it, [...]2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature:
- The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process.2007, Jesaiah Ben-Aharon, The New Experience of the Supersensible:
- Derived terms
- unselflike