Certainly, by expanding the curriculum, he expanded our conceptions of not only the law and its actors, but also what it means to be human.
Meanwhile Instagram posts tagged #livefromNorthKorea help, to some degree, expand our conception of life inside the state.
That could mean expanding our conception of what should be considered a universal right – as the Attlee government did with the National Health Service Act of 1946.
We meet extraordinary older innovators all the time, who after a lifetime of creativity are still solving big problems, generating wealth, or expanding our conception of what it means to be human.
In this way, these activities expand our conception of who "we" are, and they make the use of our powers more continuous and more stable.
Second, Libby has multiple projects on the role of identity in decision making that expand our conception of identity past simply party identification.
If this is correct, then we will be able to make sense of moral requirements, as norms that appropriately govern the reflections of individual agents, only if we expand our conception of the forms and possibilities of practical reason.
Rather than exclude such reflection because it does not conform to a narrowly scientific paradigm of reason, perhaps we should expand our conception of practical reason to make room for clarificatory reflection about the ends of action.
For the critique of collecting as conspicuous consumption, consider, for instance, John Dewey, one of the earliest advocates of expanding our conception of art beyond the fine arts. 1 Despite his broad and inclusive conception of art, Dewey did not think collecting had any aesthetic value.
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