Sentence examples for a negative conception of from inspiring English sources

Notice that the republican view of freedom is, at least in the broad sense, a negative conception of political liberty.

The alternative proposed by De Soto, beginning with a negative conception of State intervention, aims at deregulation of the informal sector.

We have seen that advocates of a negative conception of freedom tend to count only obstacles that are external to the agent.

Given the rhetorical prominence of liberty in the classical republican writings, it follows from their holding a negative conception of freedom that they cannot have been advancing a perfectionist political philosophy, as the civic humanists claim.

They point to the fact that, despite their affirmations of spiritual equality, the Quakers still uphold a negative conception of sexual difference, they suggest that women preachers must typically transcend or efface their female sexuality, and they do not call for wider socio-political changes for women.

Second, even though I was so eager to learn about the Arab world that I was taking Arabic classes before September 11 (when Arabic-language programs barely existed in the United States), I had a negative conception of Palestine.

In her major philosophical work, The Human Condition, and in some of the essays collected in Between Past and Future, Arendt articulated a fairly negative conception of modernity.

A detailed examination of the source materials, in their view, illustrates that the classical republicans held a decidedly negative conception of political liberty and indeed, the republican conception of freedom as independence from arbitrary or uncontrolled power in particular (see especially Skinner 1984, 1991, 1998, 2008; Spitz 1995; Pettit 1997; Viroli 2002).

This claim was premised on an essentially negative conception of liberty.

After explaining the negative conception of freedom as a will's ability to bring about effects in the world without itself being determined by "alien causes," he argues that any negatively free will must also be free in the positive sense, i.e., autonomous.

Liberals like Berlin have thus understandably rejected the positive, and emphatically embraced the negative conception of liberty.