Sentence examples for comprehensive conceptions from inspiring English sources
Mr Obama's speech at Notre Dame, taking up the question of abortion more specifically, hit upon similar themes, urging civil engagement in the search for common ground for what Mr Rawls would have called an "overlapping consensus" between divergent "comprehensive conceptions of the good".There is a snag here, however.
It does not rule out the appeal to comprehensive conceptions of the good when making fundamental political decisions.
The capabilities list, she argues, can be shared by citizens holding a wide variety of comprehensive conceptions of the good life, and thus should be able to function as a foundation for a political liberalism (Nussbaum 2000b, 76 fn38).
While nation-states may remain the right units for promoting comprehensive conceptions of social justice, they are increasingly inadequate for coping with cultural diversity emerging from temporary migration rather than settlement migration or territorial minority nationalisms.
This idea is understood in philosophically noncommittal ways so that it can plausibly command support from all of the reasonable comprehensive conceptions of the right and the good affirmed by members of society and also from reasonable individuals who affirm no such comprehensive conception.
The adoption of the strategy also reflects the view that the coercively imposed basic structure of society including its political constitution must be acceptable to all reasonable persons in a diverse society in which reasonable people disagree widely in their comprehensive conceptions of the right and the good.
But attaining this comprehensive and coherent view is impossible because of the nature of thought, and so the role of the notion of the Absolute a coherent, comprehensive conception of Reality has the logic of a limiting case.
As will have been evident, in our presentation of the DRR, we have relaxed Rawls' stipulation, allowing for the legitimacy of appealing to only secular reasons that have their home in one or another comprehensive conception of the good.
Teleological theories draw from the efforts of the individual agent to distinguish the real from the apparent good, and to harmonize conflicting impulses by subsuming them under a comprehensive conception of the good.
Against Leibniz, for example, who insisted that all physics begin with an accurate and comprehensive conception of the nature of bodies as such, Newton argued that the character of bodies was irrelevant to physics since this science should restrict itself to a quantified description of empirical effects only and resist the urge to speculate about that which cannot be seen or measured.
Multicultural critics of liberal feminism suggest that liberal feminism's emphasis on autonomy and fairness in personal and associational life runs the risk of elevating one particular comprehensive conception of the good life over the many others found in multicultural societies (Shachar 2009; for discussion, see Okin 1999).
