The phrase "a good conception of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's understanding or mental image of a particular idea or concept.
Example: "To solve the problem effectively, you need to have a good conception of the underlying principles involved."
Alternatives: "a clear understanding of" or "a solid grasp of".
Such a society, he argues, need not be democratic, but it must be non-aggressive towards other communities, and internally it must have a 'common good conception of justice', a 'reasonable consultation hierarchy', and it must secure basic human rights.
In any modern, diverse society that refrains from clearly unacceptable restriction of freedom, individuals will develop allegiance to different and opposed conceptions of the right and the good, and a conception of justice that can elicit everyone's reasonable acceptance must be acceptable to the different reasonable ethical views that individuals espouse.
Further, given the diversity of preferences for different combinations of traits and beliefs about how they relate to the likelihood of a good life given differing conceptions of the good life it is difficult to envision how rationality could point us to only one best possible child.
If there is anything that people cannot reasonably be expected to agree about, it is what constitutes human good, so introducing a controversial conception of human good as part and parcel of the ideal of equality that is to be at the core of the principles of justice is a bad mistake.
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.
This defense of the endorsement constraint grounds it in a background conception of a good human life, one that holds that the goodness of a human life lies in "the inherent value of a skilled performance of living" (Dworkin 1995, 244).
Rather than appealing to a background conception of a good human life, indirect arguments more frequently appeal to more mundane facts about the competence of modern governments.
Since Rawls' Theory of Justice is the classical focal point of present-day political philosophy, it is worth noting the different ways his theory claims to be egalitarian: First, Rawls upholds a natural basis for equal human worth: a minimal capacity for having a conception of the good and a sense of justice.
