Sentence examples for specific conceptions of from inspiring English sources

It is necessary to differentiate between a general concept and more specific conceptions of toleration (see also Forst 2003, 2012b).

What is meant by (distributive) justice, and the related concepts of equality and fairness, is however open to significant conjecture and is not helped by the use of these concepts in an interchangeable fashion despite constituting in turn specific conceptions of fairness, justice and equality.

It has sanitised the political sphere, and gone hand in hand with the prevailing post-political dogma of life before the first signs of global economic depression: that the political universe is confined to the perpetual growth of markets and the expansion of specific conceptions of order and freedom.

Yet some ordinances seem to regulate both access to, and action in, stricto sensu public spaces according to specific conceptions of the good life.

Nonetheless, we accept two points that are closely interrelated: first, specific conceptions of the good life should not in themselves be the presuppositions for particular regulations (Moroni, 2012a and Moroni 2012b); second, the behaviour regulated should be the cause of evident negative external effects, namely direct and tangible forms of harm (Moroni, 2011).

The article on "Music" arrives at this weak-sounding but secretly potent conclusion: "There is little doubt that each reader of this work believes firmly in the existence of music and subscribes to a specific conception of it, yet one ventures to assert that there is none who can imagine life without it".

Equality, however, is a specific conception of justice concerned with the distribution of resources, service outputs and outcomes.

Through undoing our infatuation with any specific conception of sexuality, the queer theorist opens space for marginalized forms.

Kamal (2006) has a comparable understanding by first focusing on the motivation for innovation, then the specific conception of innovation and formal proposals to the organization about innovation adoption before entering into the actual adoption decision stage.

If one assumes this requirement, then one can arrive at Habermas's specific conception of reasonable moral discourse by working out the implications of his argumentation theory for the discursive testing of unconditional moral obligations.

One question to be debated here is whether Western notions of the moral are so uniform and narrow as to conform to one philosopher's (even a great one) specific conception of the moral.