But here were musicians palpably involved with a shared conception of a remarkable work, and inspired by their dynamic conductor into urgent, intense and often ravishing playing.
A widely shared conception of the so-called scientific ethos has been propounded by Robert Merton.
It also crucially depends on the moderating influence of living under democratic institutions that are governed by the shared conception of justice.
Since a shared conception of the good could figure in common ground justifications for political principles, its promotion need not express disrespect to any citizen.
Collaboration has been broadly defined as a "coordinated, synchronous activity that is the result of a continued attempt to construct and maintain a shared conception of a problem" (Roschelle and Teasley 1995, p. 70).
Arendt did not conceive of politics as a means for the satisfaction of individual preferences, nor as a way to integrate individuals around a shared conception of the good.
As a result, the state that we now occupy is one in which we no longer enjoy a shared conception of the good, and politics has become to use MacIntyre's memorable phrase—"civil war by other means".
Very roughly, the following could be taken to be a mark of a discipline's success: (i) among its practitioners, there is a widely shared conception of the discipline's guiding questions and permissible methodology; and (ii) there is progress within the discipline in addressing its guiding questions.
Political activity is valued not because it may lead to agreement or to a shared conception of the good, but because it enables each citizen to exercise his or her powers of agency, to develop the capacities for judgment and to attain by concerted action some measure of political efficacy.
When each reasonable person has found a sufficient comprehensive or non-shared justification of a political liberal conception of justice, then we can say that an overlapping consensus on a political conception of justice exists, and as a result of this consensus, there is a public justification of our shared political conception of justice.
