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1652 J. Gage Christian Sodality i. Ep. Ded. sig. A6 Abstracting therefore from all self-relation, and looking onely on the nature of this booke, [etc.].

1797 Monthly Mirror Oct. 215 In the same proportion does public credit demonstrate the principle of its unity and self-relation.

1838 H. B. Wallace Stanley I. vi. 60 Man..in regard to his inward nature and self-relation, never varies.

1854 A. Tulk tr. H. M. Chalybäus Hist. Surv. Speculative Philos. from Kant to Hegel xv. 342 The universal process of self-relation to self, or self-contraction, which in every point is related to itself, posites relative centra, subjects, in itself, and even in these never ceases to hold relation to itself.

1906 D. H. MacGregor in Hibbert Jrnl. July 800 The fact of self-distinction from the world is as ultimate as that of self-relation to it.

2005 S. Houlgate Introd. Hegel 106 It [sc. the Idea] has nothing outside itself but is pure and simple ‘self-relation’ (einfache Beziehung auf sich). In so far as it is purely self-relating, it is always and only itself, always and only what it is.

2015 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 29 241 The way in which an agent's self-relation—that is, her take on what she is doing and why—is mediated by her relation to others.