Sentence examples for ideal conception of from inspiring English sources

Or were they always unjust because they did not live up to some ideal conception of justice?

In Kantian constructivism (CP ch.16), Rawls alters the Kantian interpretation's idea of "our nature as free and equal rational beings," into an ideal "conception of the person," regarded as a "free and equal moral person," with the two moral powers of practical reasoning.

In "Kantian Constructivism," Lecture II, Rawls explains how each of the relevant features of the original position (including the veil of ignorance and the description of the parties as "rational agents of construction") "represent" in some fashion the ideal conception of the person and of society that underwrite Kantian constructivism.

Former DNC Chair Howard Dean told the Huffington Post that the "opt-out" compromise that is being discussed by Senate Democrats was not his ideal conception of what a health care overhaul should be.

Sometimes investigators ask subjects to rate a stimulus as being sweeter or less sweet than their ideal conception of what the stimulus should taste like [ 53] or ask them to rate themselves in terms of their level of sweet preference [ 69].

Principles of justice are "constructed" on the basis of ideal conceptions of the person and of society (Ideas of reason, in Kant's sense).

Unsurprisingly, the reality is far away from this ideal conception.

However, although these examples can throw some light on why Hegel might think of his approach as leading to an ideal-realistic conception of reality, the idealistic aspect of his view strictly speaking has to do with his theory as to what these concepts of which every object is a realization are supposed to be.

"Religion and poetry address themselves, at least in one of their aspects, to the same part of the human constitution; they both supply the same want, that of ideal conceptions grander and more beautiful than we see realized in the prose of human life" ("Utility of Religion," Three Essays, p. 419).

It is important to note that the addict cannot move forward without having a determinate ideal object, a definite conception of the ideal self being represented.

When James calls Osmond "a student of the exquisite," whose "ideal was a conception of high prosperity and propriety," was he glancing in the mirror at his own ambitions, fearful of what harm they might, if brandished too freely, inflict on other selves?