In Greek thought, the soul was not conceived in terms of a dualistic contrast with the body, and there was certainly no analogue to the stark Cartesian conception of the mind as "the thing that thinks" amid a natural world of objects defined entirely by their spatial properties.
This study's main finding is the identification of a stark disparity between the conceptions of citizenship that are promoted in each of the three cases, despite the a-priori similarities between them.
Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted - almost inevitably and for the same reasons - in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery.
It was, in conception and execution, the starkest and most comprehensive case of genocide since the crime was defined in international law, in response to the Holocaust.
This story has put two conceptions of consent into stark contrast -- the informed consent required for much academic research on humans and the rather weak consent that is implied if a site has disclosed how it collects and uses data in a way that nobody reads or understands.
There is no more hiding from the crushing demands of virtue or from the stark final nature of things in his conception of the figure.
ACROSS from the stark red-brick boxes of Stuyvesant Town, the 1896 Immaculate Conception Church at 414 East 14th Street looks like a little French village.
We explore the limitations of "affect theory" for researching mediatized politics, contending that the stark differentiation of "affect" from "emotion" reifies the rational, autonomous, liberal conception of the subject, and is of limited value for political communications research.
Breaking up soon after conception and delivery is a bitter pill; new rules and stark choices can feel cruel.
In stark contrast to the divine right of kings and other such conceptions of privilege, human rights extend in theory to every person on Earth, without regard to merit or need, simply for being human or because they mitigate inherent human vulnerability or are requisite to social justice.
