"negative conception" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an idea or belief that is pessimistic or unconstructive. For example, "Many people have a negative conception of the future, seeing only gloom and doom ahead."
This claim was premised on an essentially negative conception of liberty.
Notice that the republican view of freedom is, at least in the broad sense, a negative conception of political liberty.
Liberals like Berlin have thus understandably rejected the positive, and emphatically embraced the negative conception of liberty.
The alternative proposed by De Soto, beginning with a negative conception of State intervention, aims at deregulation of the informal sector.
The negative conception of critical theory is closely related to the renewed interest Horkheimer showed in Schopenhauer in his last works.
Thus, in contrast to the ordinary negative conception, on the republican conception the mere possibility of arbitrary interference appears to constitute a limitation of liberty.
"They can't relaunch the operations from a clean slate because people have negative conceptions of what T-Mobile's quality is," Mr. Kuittinen said.
The republican conception of liberty is certainly distinct from both Greenian positive and negative conceptions.
Taylor 1982; Steiner 1994; Carter and Kramer 2008) to distinguish it from those 'impure' negative conceptions that make at least minimal references to the agent's beliefs, desires or values.
Advocates of negative conceptions of freedom typically restrict the range of obstacles that count as constraints on freedom to those that are brought about by other agents.
Much of the most recent literature on political and social freedom has concentrated on the above debate over the differences between the republican and liberal (i.e. negative) conceptions of freedom.
