Sentence examples for the negative conception of from inspiring English sources
Liberals like Berlin have thus understandably rejected the positive, and emphatically embraced the negative conception of liberty.
The negative conception of critical theory is closely related to the renewed interest Horkheimer showed in Schopenhauer in his last works.
Other theorists of freedom have remained closer to the negative conception of freedom but have attempted to go beyond it, saying that freedom is not merely the enjoyment of a sphere of non-interference but the enjoyment of certain conditions in which such non-interference is guaranteed (see especially Pettit 1997, 2001, and Skinner 1998, 2002).
After explaining the negative conception of freedom as a will's ability to bring about effects in the world without itself being determined by "alien causes," he argues that any negatively free will must also be free in the positive sense, i.e., autonomous.
Because this negative conception of older adults is becoming prevalent, resulting in the golden years of life becoming years of frustration and resentment, there is an urgent need for research to highlight the possible positive aspects of old age in society.
Notice that the republican view of freedom is, at least in the broad sense, a negative conception of political liberty.
A detailed examination of the source materials, in their view, illustrates that the classical republicans held a decidedly negative conception of political liberty and indeed, the republican conception of freedom as independence from arbitrary or uncontrolled power in particular (see especially Skinner 1984, 1991, 1998, 2008; Spitz 1995; Pettit 1997; Viroli 2002).
They point to the fact that, despite their affirmations of spiritual equality, the Quakers still uphold a negative conception of sexual difference, they suggest that women preachers must typically transcend or efface their female sexuality, and they do not call for wider socio-political changes for women.
Second, even though I was so eager to learn about the Arab world that I was taking Arabic classes before September 11 (when Arabic-language programs barely existed in the United States), I had a negative conception of Palestine.
The alternative proposed by De Soto, beginning with a negative conception of State intervention, aims at deregulation of the informal sector.
Given the rhetorical prominence of liberty in the classical republican writings, it follows from their holding a negative conception of freedom that they cannot have been advancing a perfectionist political philosophy, as the civic humanists claim.
