His Platonic insistence on the immortality of the soul led him to reject the notion that every individual human soul was created at its conception, in favour of the Origenian position that all intellectual natures were created equal and alike from the beginning of eternity (Scott 1991).
A Santorum win would help the Democratic party, which could portray the former Pennsylvania senator – strongly opposed to same-sex marriage and abortion, believing life begins at conception, and in favour of bombing Iran – as the face of the current Republican party.
And some philosophers have rejected generous conceptions of properties in favour of sparse conceptions according to which only some predicates express properties.
Yorck's conception of Christianity is heavily biased in favour of Luther's theology.
The apparent success of the post-war welfare state in securing social cohesion was a strong argument in favour of a conception of citizenship focused on the securing of equal civil, political and social rights.[12] The universalist model was aggressively targeted at the end of the 1980s as the moral and cultural pluralism of contemporary liberal societies elicited increasing theoretical attention.
It is not obvious...why such a presumption should not militate in favour of a realist conception...of the interpretations of beliefs/desires".
Yet he rejected Marxism in favour of a more flexible conception of the interaction of cultural, social, and economic factors.
As a result, individuals who accept this conception are abandoning a potential area of creative self-expression in favour of adopting a subordinate role as servants of truth.
In their own artistic practice and their work as critics, the existentialists tended to interpret this conception of art's mission (as revelation and appeal) as an argument in favour of representational approaches, and against formalistic and puristic approaches.
Certainly, the South African judicial rejection of the core in favour of a "reasonableness standard" presents a significant challenge to the international law conception of minimum core obligations [ 51, 86, 87].
