Sentence examples for a conception of human from inspiring English sources

Presupposed in the foregoing account is a conception of human beings as economic animals rationally and self-interestedly engaged in minimizing costs and maximizing gains.

And some philosophers of religion have been content with a conception of human freedom that is consistent with causal determinism, the view that all events and choices are determined by previously existing causes.

It introduced a conception of human life as the effort to control the chaos of sensation and desire through an understanding of the ideal order that is appropriate to each kind of being.

In its Constitution, the European Union rejected the Christian moral code of its past, instead choosing as its underlying basis the sandy foundations of economics and of a conception of human dignity subject to the ever-changing demands of the will of the people.

In an age blessed with technological marvels but with fear in the background, there is an appetite once more for a form open to all-comers, sceptical of conventions of class, capital and gender, and rooted in a conception of human engagement as collaboration rather than transaction.

It does appear, moreover, that those who do describe themselves as philosophical anthropologists remain committed to working out a conception of human personality that centres on the notion of a soul-mind, as well as on the various notions of intellectual, moral, and spiritual life that traditionally have been associated with it.

It is an idea of the good, but a human idea, a conception of being human that can move us to do our best, a standard beyond our common selfish objects of desire.

In particular, he claimed that environmental degradation was likely due to a conception of the human self that had been ill defined in the past.

So Aquinas just defines the will as the capacity to choose in accordance with a conception of the human good in other words, as intellectual appetite.

23 Nordenfelt and Nussbaum also follow similar paths in identifying a conception of minimum human wellbeing or 'happiness in the long run'.

In particular, Rorty finds in Dewey an anticipation of his own view of philosophy as the hand-maiden of a humanist politics, of a non-ontological view of the virtues of inquiry, of a holistic conception of human intellectual life, and of an anti-essentialist, historicist conception of philosophical thought.