Sentences with phrase «classical conception»
The phrase "classical conception" refers to traditional or original ideas or theories that have been accepted and respected for a long time. It usually represents the established understanding of something, based on principles set by great thinkers in the past. Full definition
Nondemocratic societies essentially are ones in which people are separated into distinct strata, and the classical conception of democracy emerges from the attempt to organize a society of equals, free from the privileges or stigmas of «superior» and «inferior» rank.
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That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.
The emergence of ethnic pride and some degree of vitality in ethnic culture among blacks and Chicanos and the continuation of such culture among Indians fits the classical conception of cultural pluralism developed by Horace Kallen 13 better than the present condition of most of the white and oriental ethnic groups.
Finally, I grant that Hartshorne has shown the classical conception not to be required by the practice of theistic religions.
His word of praise is that the great rationalist performed a notable service in carrying through the logic of the classical conception, thus revealing it in its true colors (PSG 189 - 91).
It is justice in a biblical sense, which is more than retributive, more than giving everybody what they deserve (or «to each his due,» as the classical conception of justice has it).
The primary accusation against Servetus was that he denied infant baptism and the classical conception of Trinity.
Republican thinking today relies heavily on a classical conception of citizenship.
«Gone is the classical conception of the universe as a serene and majestic ensemble,» Giacconi told the audience in Stockholm in December 2002, when he received a Nobel Prize for his work.
The classical conception of mise en scène is important not only because it has given birth to both marvellous, poetic films and impassioned, precise criticism, but because it still exists in contemporary cinema.