Sentence examples for conception of ourselves from inspiring English sources
"The España library changed our conception of ourselves," he added.
Our conception of ourselves will embrace not only our personal genetic quirks, but the broad sweep of our evolutionary past.
However abstract these proposals may seem, they have had a revolutionary influence on modern psychology and social science and on our conception of ourselves.
Mental causation the mind's causal interaction with the world, and in particular, its influence on behavior is central to our conception of ourselves as agents.
Such an interpretation might allow certain apparently radical constitutive claims, but the challenge would remain to reconcile the view with a naturalistic conception of ourselves, something such a proposal may fail to do (e.g. Boyd 1992, Rosen 1994).
Though Kant's idealism is highly controversial from the outset, it represents the Enlightenment's most serious attempt to understand the cosmos in such a way that the Enlightenment's conception of nature and the Enlightenment's conception of ourselves (as morally free, as having dignity, as perfectible, et cetera) fit together in a single system.
Intuitions about systems in the world are influenced by our conceptions of ourselves.
But this line of thought does violence to our conceptions of ourselves and our fellow human beings.
The very structure of how we live together, of our conceptions of ourselves as human beings on this planet, and of our activism for justice, equality and dignity, is changing and will change.
More recently, working from the late writings of Foucault, Hull (2015) has explored the way in which the 'self-management' model of online privacy protection embodied in standard 'notice and consent' practices only reinforces a narrow neoliberal conception of privacy, and of ourselves, as commodities for sale and exchange.
Or, as Hobbes put it in Human Nature: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly".
