self-directing

It teaches almost every infamy under the heavens for woman, and it does not recognize her as a self-directing, free human being.

They assume the attitude of self-directing and self-responsible bodies.

The soul may be a mechanism, but it is a self-directing and self-executing mechanism.

There are always opaque facts as well as self-directing agents.

We can make its impulses follow a rut, so to speak, but we cannot make them free and self-directing.