Sentence examples for a particular conception from inspiring English sources

It was, Ferguson contends, because the English settlers brought with them a particular conception of widely distributed property rights and democracy, inherited from John Locke.

Thubron's great triumph in that novel was to engineer a particular impression in the reader's mind (a particular conception of reality) and then disturb it actively.

Hollywood spent the 80s churning out action films like Rambo and The Terminator, which supported the hawkish aspects of Reaganism and promoted a particular conception of masculinity that still resonates in the blockbusters we see today.

Both contemporary and historical philosophers of education have devoted themselves, at least in part, to defending a particular conception of the aims of education or to criticizing the conceptions of others.

Every ontology, or theory about the nature of being, makes use of this philosophical process that gives value to certain aspects of reality and denies it to others according to dissociations that it justifies by developing a particular conception of reality.

For instance, Samir Amin's study Eurocentrism is concerned to criticize a particular conception of progress.

He argues that a state cannot legitimately impose any particular conception of happiness upon its citizens (8 290 91).

Surely our concepts of physical reality outstrip any particular conception we have at any given time, and the possibility of mistaken application is built into them.

The speed of technological change counsels against regulating the Internet based on any particular conception of the current state of technology, as the inevitable evolution will soon render any understanding obsolete.

According to Kantian contractualism, "society, being composed of a plurality of persons, each with his own aims, interests, and conceptions of the good, is best arranged when it is governed by principles that do not themselves presuppose any particular conception of the good…" (Sandel, 1982: 1).

And why should we believe that the value of civic friendship has enough weight to ground a very particular conception of the type of reasons that can be appropriately deployed in political deliberation?