Sentence examples for a conception of himself from inspiring English sources

Second, he claims that in order for an agent to regard himself as the master of the social forces that presently determine his self-constitution, he must have a conception of himself existing in abstraction from the determination of these forces before he was born, and consequently subjected to these forces.

Fitzgerald's hero, the poor farm boy named Jimmy Gatz who reinvents himself as Jay Gatsby, who "sprang from a Platonic conception of himself", epitomises the self-made man.

If Jay Gatsby, as Fitzgerald said, sprang from a Platonic conception of himself, Rohmer's characters spring from a Platonic conception of the French as fully articulate and sociable creatures, crooning an ideal language of erotic choice.

Benn and many others believe that Netanyahu has a heroic conception of himself that is hard for Obama to understand or countenance.

"First: a conception of the common good.

From physical destinations, we extrapolate a conception of goals.

"A lot of people have a conception of what home schoolers are like.

The standard conception of action provides us with a conception of agency.

It is based on a conception of language and meaning.

He had been driven, to some degree, by a "false and lonely conception of himself" and "haunted by the competition of dead men and the need to out-do everyone who had ever lived," as Stewart once wrote of Alexander the Great.

For example, a white/Christian/middle-class/heterosexual American male bases his conception of himself as a authority, leader, or boss upon his conviction that he is in the right that he knows what is good for others as well as himself.