The second was a voluntarist conception of social transformation in which a highly mobilised population could fundamentally change society through sheer determination and force of will.
"Bear Seduction," one of its 10 scenes, portrays the conception of the twins, in which a bear, played by Mr. Goldhuber, ensnares a local innocent, Heidi Latsky — and wham, bam, she's a mother.
Even in a utilitarian conception, responsibility is a domain in which a decision includes the consequences for others.
Modern literature projects a quite different idea: the romantic conception of writing as a medium in which a singular personality heroically exposes itself.
In the same vein, several authors pursue "dialogical" conceptions of autonomy in which an agent's answerability to others is the key condition.
In its time, that rabbinic reading of the story of Abraham and his visitors was challenging a very common spiritual conception in which human beings existed at a fixed point on a continuum ranging upward from inanimate objects to animals to people to angels to God.
One of the paintings he made for the church was the Immaculate Conception, in which he posed the virgin in a Mannerist S-curve.
Similarly, those on the right have leaned towards a more Darwinian conception, in which different social outcomes are accounted for by differences of suitability to the environment.
That understanding has given way to a public choice conception in which the Court presumes these same minorities to be too politically powerful.
His book takes important steps toward the development of a more comprehensive conception, in which truth, intersecting with goodness, calls for societal transformation.
