Sentence examples for any particular conception of from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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).

But they are not to undertake any action as a way of promoting a particular conception of the good life or a comprehensive philosophical doctrine.

Radical factions and parties battling for supremacy each have at their heart a particular conception of the "good life".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.