Sentence examples for conception of itself from inspiring English sources

In 1981, he wrote a seminal memorandum for the Reagan administration which said that "Human rights is at the core of our foreign policy, because it is central to America's conception of itself". Abrams became one of the foremost advocates of abandoning pro-American dictators when democratic alternatives were available.

According to Ockham's metaphysics there are only individuals in the world so that when an individual causes a concept to exist in the mind, it causes an individual concept and hence a singular conception of itself.

It was a period that marked an enormous change in the country's conception of itself.

"In Britain's conception of itself," opined the Times, "the myth of the wooded island looms large.

Or can a wine list reflect a restaurant's best conception of itself, no matter how unconventional?

After the Stonewall riots in 1969, the early gay liberation movement began to demand more comprehensive change – the problem was not homosexuality but society's conception of itself.

The contraction also presumably responds to problem in Addison, this time to an apparent inconsistency in the conception of imagination itself.

However, if a conception is of something common to an object and all other things, then there can be nothing in any of its causes not reflected in the conception of it itself; whatever is present in the cause will be present in it as well, hence reflected in the idea of it.

Applying the relevant principles of the understanding the Analogies of Experience therefore results in a sequence of successive corrections or refinements of our ordinary temporal experience, as the observable motions are progressively embedded within an increasingly precise and refined conception of temporality itself.

One does not need to see this as a weakness to notice that the ties between mitigated skepticism and its dogmatic framework render it liable to redundancy, in a way radical skepticism is not, if the philosophical conception of knowledge itself changes.

"What is the impact of our criminal justice system on our conception of democracy itself?" Kaphar asked in an interview with Hyperallergic.