The phrase "a particular conception of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific idea, understanding, or interpretation of a concept or phenomenon.
Example: "The philosopher presented a particular conception of reality that challenged traditional views."
Alternatives: "a specific understanding of" or "a distinct interpretation of".
Radical factions and parties battling for supremacy each have at their heart a particular conception of the "good life".
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.
In the last decade a number of national and international activities and public policies in the US have converged to prescribe a particular conception of educational research.
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.
A central idea of Rawls' political philosophy is that in pluralist societies like ours, where people disagree about the meaning of the good life, we should not embody in the Constitution, say, or in law, any particular conception of the good life.
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?
