Sentence examples for conception of good from inspiring English sources

Thus, even by this definition, the conception of good health must involve some allowance for change in the environment.

Bush, a born-again Christian, may borrow his conception of good and bad from the Bible, but that won't satisfy everyone.

The issue is: we want the intelligences with (morally) good ideas always to defeat the evil intelligences, biological and artificial; but we are fallible, and our own conception of "good" needs continual improvement.

Volkswagen has tested the XL1 to 261mpg, a figure so gaudy that it recalibrates one's conception of "good" fuel economy.

This is a conception of good argument which can be applied to many instances of ordinary argument, but there are many situations in which the success and failure of arguments may be measured in other ways.

Though this problem is often connected with majority tyranny it is distinct from the problem of majority tyranny because it may be the case that the majority attempts to treat the minority well, in accordance with its conception of good treatment.

J. L. Mackie regarded Anderson's positive conception of goods as being "hopeless as an account of moral talk and reasoning" (Mackie 1985).

Already it offers lessons for the rest of the world: in how to increase social equality by putting the human being above capital; in innovative financial models to overcome the threat of crises; and in new conceptions of good living, based on social and environmental sustainability.

"With dualistic conceptions of good and evil and hierarchical notions of values and worth," Mr. Sanders wrote in an essay for the Web site Religion Dispatches, "it becomes easy to know who it is O.K. to hate or bully, or, seemingly more benignly, to ignore.

This study explored 2475 Israeli students' conceptions of good teaching and examined the relationship between these conceptions and students' background characteristics.

The situationist might wonder how useful traditional conceptions of good character can be, if acquiring virtuous character is a long and difficult process made possible by social institutions that do not yet exist.