The phrase "a conception of itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how an entity perceives or understands its own identity or nature.
Example: "The organization developed a conception of itself that emphasized innovation and collaboration."
Alternatives: "an understanding of itself" or "a self-perception".
According to Ockham's metaphysics there are only individuals in the world so that when an individual causes a concept to exist in the mind, it causes an individual concept and hence a singular conception of itself.
Revisionists, on the other hand, tend to see Hegel as furthering the Kantian critique into the very coherence of a conception of an in-itself reality that is beyond the limits of our theoretical (but not practical) cognition.
However, knowledge by explanation probably does not reflect a conception of reason in itself as a distinct source of knowledge, an idea familiar from Western rationalism.
Hustle, imagination, a willingness to indulge a degree of hedonism and a determination to fulfill a romantic conception of itself have helped Dubai prosper.
Barbara Herman has urged philosophers to "leave deontology behind" as an understanding of Kant's moral theory on the grounds that the conception of practical reason grounding the Categorical Imperative is itself a conception of value.
It enables them to do this by citing what are publicly recognized among them as valid and sufficient reasons singled out by that conception itself…the aim of justice as fairness, then, is practical: it presents itself as a conception of justice that may be shared by citizens as a basis of a reasoned, informed, and willing political agreement.
We are often aware, of course, of the selective and gappy nature of these narratives: but our ability sometimes to identify such gaps and errors in memory, some philosophers have argued, itself presupposes a conception of the causal connectedness of the self.
Or can a wine list reflect a restaurant's best conception of itself, no matter how unconventional?
