Sentence examples for populist conception from inspiring English sources
Mencius's populist conception of politics was predicated on his philosophical vision that human beings can perfect themselves through effort and that human nature (xing) is good.
Populist conceptions of idealization are widely regarded as subject to enormous problems, since people can "withhold their assent because of obstinacy, selfishness, laziness, perversity, or confusion" (Gaus 1996, 121).
Gaus has criticized Rawls (1996, 130 136) for having an excessively populist or actualist conception of stability and has developed his own conception of stability for the right reasons (2011, 389 408).
The communist revolution, in Li's conception, became a populist revolution against the exploitation and oppression of foreign imperialism, with an overwhelming emphasis on the central role of China's impoverished peasantry.
Some scholars argue rightwing populists tend to be "exclusionary" (omitting, say, migrants or ethnic minorities from their conception of a virtuous people), whereas leftwing populists have a broader, inclusive concept of who counts as "the people".
In the 1890s Plekhanov continued his polemics against the populists, most importantly with his book On the Development of the Monistic Conception of History.
Over the centuries, the phrase has gained a less fearsome connotation, though with the punishment still self-induced; hence the Scalia conception of the A.P. transgression as giving him what he deserved for his "populist, illiterate wandering".
They have to argue against the populist fantasies of a "pure people", and instead fashion attractive and, above all, pluralist conceptions of Britishness and Americanness.
