Sentence examples for developing a conception from inspiring English sources

Beauvoir takes over Sartre's characterization of the human condition and expands on ideas only hinted at in Sartre's famous lecture, "The Humanism of Existentialism" (1946), in developing a conception of authenticity.

If they aren't distinct, however, special divine action would just be intervention, in which case the project of developing a conception of special divine action that doesn't involve intervention is unhopeful.

At the same time, he developed a conception of nature that provided an alternative to the mathematical and spiritless mechanism that the Enlightenment seemed to offer.

"Our aim is to develop a conception of autonomy that is philosophically defensible and can be applied in practice," explains Essex University's philosophy professor, Wayne Martin, now leading the Essex Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The Chinese even developed a conception calendar, or Shengyubiao, based on a woman's age in lunar years and on the month of conception, for couples to choose the sex of their offspring.

Instead, he develops a conception of human knowledge appropriate to the new science while retaining scientia as an ideal.

The hope was to develop a conception of film that made it clear that it differed in significant ways from the other fine arts.

Apparently, then, the project is to develop a conception of special divine action (action beyond creation and conservation) that doesn't involve intervention.

He idealizes in this way in order to develop a conception of the reasonable where citizens take up a discursive, moral point of view aimed at a rational consensus concerning the interests of all.

Moreover, by viewing action as a mode of human togetherness, Arendt is able to develop a conception of participatory democracy which stands in direct contrast to the bureaucratized and elitist forms of politics so characteristic of the modern epoch.

This lecture, and several essays written by Horkheimer in the early 1930s, would develop a conception of interdisciplinary social research that was meant to guide the activities of the institute during Horkheimer's tenure as director.