Liberalism, which first emerged in the 17th century, has at its core a distinctive conception of human nature.
To be fair, Mr Hayek did eventually develop a distinctive conception of the rule of law, but it's not that distinctive, and the idea of "an unwritten code" certainly isn't part of it.
Although the Retentional model itself comes in several variants, its proponents share a distinctive conception of the structure of temporal consciousness.
Similarly, in this work and in Communication and the Evolution of Society (1979), Habermas begins to develop a distinctive conception of rational reconstruction, which models societal development as a learning process.
Both creativity and innovation, however, share the same three distinctive steps - conception, exploration, and exploitation of a new idea - in order to evolve and materialize an initial idea/concept into a higher added value result.
Others maintain that realism is committed, in addition, to a distinctive (and tendentious) conception of truth [Putnam 1981 , 1985 1992; Wright 1991] or, more radically, that realism just is a thesis about the nature of truth that truth can transcend the possibility of verification, ruling statements for which we can gather no evidence one way or the other to be determinately either true or false.
In addition, Mou saw Kant as providing a way of understanding what is distinctive about the Mencian conception of morality, but also thought that Confucian ethics transcends certain limitations of Kant's thought.[28] Since the death of Mao, there has been a resurgence of interest in Confucianism in mainland China.
Such conceptions share some distinctive features: they are often hierarchical, are often associated with positive status or negative stigma, and have often involved an explicit or implicit appeal to both norms and ideals of what it means to be human.
The distinctive belief which is a generalized conception of events and of the members' relationships to them supplies the basis for the development of a distinctive and stable organization within the collectivity.
None of these figures except perhaps Royce continued to explore a dynamic conception of idealism distinctive of Hegel and the other German idealists Royce in fact wrote more extensively and insightfully on Hegel and his immediate predecessors than any of the others.
