The phrase "idealized conception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a theoretical or perfect version of an idea, concept, or object that may not exist in reality.
Example: "The artist's work reflects an idealized conception of beauty that transcends the ordinary."
Alternatives: "perfected idea" or "theoretical model."
Watching the film as both a father and a son, I realized that Woody and Buzz stand for an idealized conception of moms and dads as selfless, wholly subservient providers of unconditional love.
His Martians are not alien like Heinlein's or futuristically evolved like Welles's but a premodern people akin to the ancient Egyptians or American Indians (or a boy's idealized conception of them), our superiors not technologically but spiritually.
One strategy is to argue that moral luck is only a problem for an overly idealized conception of human agency.
Habermas summarizes his idealized conception of practical discourse in the "discourse principle" (D), which we might state as follows: A rule of action or choice is justified, and thus valid, only if all those affected by the rule or choice could accept it in a reasonable discourse.
In fact, the process of forgiveness often requires the most extreme types of action that may seem at odds with an idealized conception of what it means to forgive.
While Lydia always seemed easily popular and academically flawless, her inexplicable disappearance and death leaves each of her parents questioning the idealized conception they had of her -- and wondering, guiltily, if their unrelenting pressure to perform contributed to Lydia's fate.
The sad truth is that both writers share an idealized, fairy-tale conception sex -- though, of course, the details differ -- along with a ruthless impulse to shame and stigmatize the men and women who deviate from their scripts.
Rhimes originally idealized the episode at the conception of the drama, while the show remained untitled.
Far from the popular conception of mermaids as idealized, seductive maidens, the Fiji mermaid is more a surgical nightmare than a mythological dream, her wrinkled physique reminiscent of a fossilized baby with reptilian blood.
Rawls' idealized procedure, he tells us, adopts a conception of the person as free and equal, and he emphasizes a similar idea in his interpretation of Kant's moral philosophy (Rawls 1971, §40; Rawls 1980).
Lukas Haas is a good little actor — his shyness is lovely — but the moviemakers' conception of the boy is so idealized it's as if they'd never been driven nuts by the antics of a real, live child.
