Sentence examples for secular conception from inspiring English sources

Israeli liberals — the late education minister Shulamit Aloni comes to mind — have warned since the state's founding that rabbinic power thwarts the development of a secular conception of citizenship, not just for secular Jews but for the fifth of Israeli citizens who are Arab.

George Levine's aim in Darwin Loves You is to argue that Darwin's own understanding of nature can and should serve as a model for a non-supernatural, secular conception of meaning and value.

For the opponents propounded a theocratic politics guided by Scriptural interpretation and supernatural metaphysics accessible only or especially to (philosophical) theologians, in contrast to the secular conception of the state and its subsidiary institutions (such as the judiciary and the universities) proposed by Pufendorf and Thomasius.

There is a secular moral concept of evil which is distinct from fictional or religious conceptions, and it is this secular conception of evil that is meant most often when the term 'evil' is used in moral and political contexts (see Garrard 2002, 325; Card 2010, 10 17).

With its dark mystical roots, and its overtly religious content, it is hardly surprising that the philosophy of Hegel so understood has rarely been regarded as a live option within the largely secular and scientific conceptions of philosophy that have been dominant in the twentieth century.

In the 18th century, the conception of a secular state with an independent basis of authority and the distinction between the roles of citizen and believer in a certain faith were further developed, even though Locke's thought that a stable political order did require some common religious basis persisted (with a few exceptions, such as the French materialists).

In the 17th century the well-known Tertön Pema Lingpa of Bumthang, who founded many monasteries in various parts of Bhutan, was also instrumental in creating religious and secular dance forms from his conception of the 'Zandog Pelri' (the Copper Colored mountain), which was the abode of the Guru Padmasambahva (which is the same place as the Paro Taktsang or Tiger's nest).

This is why right-wing populism morphs easily into culture wars in which nostalgia for ways things never were contends with the cultural by-products of secular and progressive ideologies organized around conceptions of equality.

Consequently, many secular artists attempted to express their own conceptions of the "natural spontaneity" of Zhuangzi and Laozi's "spirit of the valley".

Consequently, many secular artists attempted to express their own conceptions of the "natural spontaneity" of Zhuangzi and Laozi's "spirit of the valley". Here Daoism found still wider imaginative extension, and the efforts of these painters are embodied in those magnificent landscapes that have come to be thought of as most characteristically Chinese.

Against this stands a type of secular humanism that seeks to articulate a positive conception of human wellbeing independently of religious belief.