Sentence examples for Conception of living from inspiring English sources

In ethics, Rand held a vaguely Aristotelian theory of virtue based on a teleological conception of living organisms, including humans.

It is, after all, open to us to interpret what Socrates is saying in terms of a conception that integrates the things that Socrates attributes to the soul as functions, or as parts or aspects of its function, namely in terms of the conception of living a life, and not just any kind of life, but a distinctively human one.

The specifics of this account are explained by a set of experiences or concerns, said to be common to all human beings and societies, such as fear, bodily appetite, distribution of resources, management of personal property, etc. Corresponding to each of these is a conception of living well, a virtue, namely the familiar Aristotelian virtues such as courage, moderation, justice, and generosity.

In recent years, environmental molecular surveys of microbial diversity have resulted in a profound change in our conception of the diversity of living microbes.

Some of their conceptions for living together have proved successful, been adapted and endured -- others have not.

One can assume that the adolescents' self-conceptions were shaped by their experiences of living with food hypersensitivity, and their self-conceptions were probably essential for their management of and attitude towards the hypersensitivity condition.

The biological conception of God as a kind of living heat or seed from which things grow seems to be fully intended.

Factors associated with longer time to pregnancy in this population included irregular menstrual cycle, breast-feeding within 2 months of conception, and living in the United States for ≥ 11 years (compared with recent immigrants living in the United States for ≤ 5 years).

One way a self-respecting individual does this is through having, and living in light, of a normative self-conception, i.e., a conception of being and living that she regards as worthy of her as the particular person she is.

Intellectual conception is analogous to the conception of offspring by living things in the sense that a new reality is brought into being.

The evidence of a link between family formation and ownership is further strengthened by research which shows that couples in single-family houses have a much greater probability of conception than couples living in apartments (Kulu and Vikat 2007).