Sentence examples for conception of human beings from inspiring English sources

Presupposed in the foregoing account is a conception of human beings as economic animals rationally and self-interestedly engaged in minimizing costs and maximizing gains.

The metaphysical basis of this project is their shared naturalistic and necessitarian conception of human beings.

Hobbes' conception of human beings as fundamentally motivated by their perception of what is in their own best interest implies the challenge, important for Enlightenment moral philosophy, to construct moral duties of justice and benevolence out of such limited materials.

It certainly fits better with a naturalized conception of human beings as part of this world and not as Cartesian thinking substances that somehow operate apart from the rest of nature.

He has been seen, at various times, as a hero and as a villain; as a brilliant theorist who set new directions in thought, and as the harbinger of a cold, rationalistic, and calculative conception of human beings.

Examples of basic concepts that have been transient include a teleological conception of nature that is, the view that everything that exists in the world exists for a purpose, and is defined by the purpose that it pursues and a conception of human beings as wholly different from animals, as opposed to a view that sees them as (particularly well-developed) animals.

That is a rather radical conception of human being, marked by a severe lack of human agency.

"Fruitful," when applied to humanity, doesn't mean only physical reproduction; it refers "to the process of mental conception," the power of human beings to learn and reason, and so to create more knowledge.

This is because absolutist conceptions of values are derived from, and ultimately justified by something other than the lived-experiences of human beings, be it God, or human rationality.

On Darwin's tongue, the Word created a revolutionary and now well-nigh universal conception of the nature of human beings, or, rather, human beasts.

As Althusser understands them, whatever conceptions we have of the nature of human beings or about the proper function of the state are historically generated and serve to reproduce existing social relations.