The phrase "a shared conception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a common understanding or idea that is held by a group of people.
Example: "In our discussions, we aim to develop a shared conception of the project's goals to ensure everyone is on the same page."
Alternatives: "a common understanding" or "a mutual idea."
But here were musicians palpably involved with a shared conception of a remarkable work, and inspired by their dynamic conductor into urgent, intense and often ravishing playing.
Since a shared conception of the good could figure in common ground justifications for political principles, its promotion need not express disrespect to any citizen.
Collaboration has been broadly defined as a "coordinated, synchronous activity that is the result of a continued attempt to construct and maintain a shared conception of a problem" (Roschelle and Teasley 1995, p. 70).
Arendt did not conceive of politics as a means for the satisfaction of individual preferences, nor as a way to integrate individuals around a shared conception of the good.
As a result, the state that we now occupy is one in which we no longer enjoy a shared conception of the good, and politics has become to use MacIntyre's memorable phrase—"civil war by other means".
Political activity is valued not because it may lead to agreement or to a shared conception of the good, but because it enables each citizen to exercise his or her powers of agency, to develop the capacities for judgment and to attain by concerted action some measure of political efficacy.
Very roughly, the following could be taken to be a mark of a discipline's success: (i) among its practitioners, there is a widely shared conception of the discipline's guiding questions and permissible methodology; and (ii) there is progress within the discipline in addressing its guiding questions.
A widely shared conception of the so-called scientific ethos has been propounded by Robert Merton.
It also crucially depends on the moderating influence of living under democratic institutions that are governed by the shared conception of justice.
It is suggested that open acknowledgment of this shared conception, and perhaps even its strategic redeployment, might do much to help move Greece out of its current foreign and domestic impasse.
While that sentiment is widely shared, conceptions of its manifestation differ widely, especially in the corridors of power.
