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determination

decision making

experience

growth

struggle

1s 2nstances in things such as desire, work, or play, are not part of human existence, but rather places which will render those who come to occupy them as desiring, as workman-like, as playful.

When Foucault defines determinations such as death, desire, work, or play, he does not consider them as dimensions of empirical human existence, but above all as the qualifications of places and positions which will render those who come to occupy them mortal and dying, or desiring, or workman-like, or playful. (Deleuze 'desert' 2002: 174)

is the conceptualizing, articulation, identification, particularization, and specification of something.

To determine something is to conceptualise, articulate, identify, particularise, specify it. Solomon suggests that the term plays a similar role in Hegel to 'constitute' in Kant. Determination and determinacy presuppose negation i.e. (Inwood:) a thing is determinate only in so far as it contrasts with other things or concepts which are determined in a way in which it is not. The determinacy of a thing consist in its features, in the broadest possible sense.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. Napoleon Bonaparte

is important --- a determined man can accomplish almost anything, except keeping his hair from falling out.

BALD 62 A determined man can accomplish almost anything, except keeping his hair from falling out.

is important --- A man without determination is but an untempered sword.

A man without determination is but an untempered sword.

is vital to success --- To him who is determined it remains only to act.

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

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