Royal inscriptions from the 12th dynasty (1938 1756 bce) to Ptolemaic times aim to present a king's actions according to an overall conception of "history," in which he is the re-creator of the order of the world and the guarantor of its continued stability or its expansion.
Royal inscriptions from the 12th dynasty (1938 1756 bc) to Ptolemaic times aim to present a king's actions according to an overall conception of "history," in which he is the re-creator of the order of the world and the guarantor of its continued stability or its expansion.
As analyzed above in Section 2.5, prior tradition had been heavily affected by Buffon's novel conception of biological species in which he made a sharp distinction between "natural" species defined by such properties as fertile interbreeding, and "artificial" species and varieties defined by morphological traits and measurements upon these.
He explained the conception of the song, in which he raps about the fact that "he liked Shakira better when — early in her career: she was chubbier, had dark hair and was a rock chick", by saying that "I told her (Shakira) it was a good idea to make fun of yourself.
Grounded in Plotinus and other Neoplatonic writers yet also in Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, Ibn Gabirol developed a system in which he introduced the conception of a divine will, like the Logos (or divine "word") of Philo.
He is completing a monograph entitled "Education and Democratic Justice: A Normative Theory for Global Citizenship," in which he defends democratic conceptions of global educational justice and citizenship education.
Newton, in his controversial Scholium on space, time, and motion, was not merely asserting that motion is absolute in the face of the mechanists' relativist view; he was arguing that a conception of absolute motion was already implicit in the views of his opponents that it was implicit in their conception, which he largely shared, of physical cause and effect.
Individuals necessarily, though perhaps not inalterably, learn to engage with themselves and with issues of self-worth in the terms and modes of the sociocultural conceptions in which they have been immersed.
Schelling accepts such a conception, to which he substantially contributed in his early philosophy, as the way to construct a 'negative' system of philosophy, because it explains the logic of change, once there is a world to be explained.
He is also Ockhamist in his conception of universals, which he regards as spoken or conceptual signs, and in his theory of supposition, which essentially restates the Ockhamist divisions of supposition, despite of some refinements as descensus copulatim, perhaps influenced by Heytesbury.
