But though the conception of the ideas as genera or species is forgotten or laid aside, the distinction of the visible and intellectual is as firmly maintained as ever.
In the Philebus, probably one of the latest of the Platonic Dialogues, the conception of a personal or semi-personal deity expressed under the figure of mind, the king of all, who is also the cause, is retained.
In the exaltation of the reason or intellect, in the denial of the voluntariness of evil (Timaeus; Laws) Spinoza approaches nearer to Plato than in his conception of an infinite substance.
A crude conception of the ideas of Plato survives in the 'forms' of Bacon.
Neither they nor their predecessors had any true conception of language or of the history of philosophy.
A very few years more and the hazardous difficulties of handling a fleet under canvas shall have passed beyond the
conception of seamen who hold in trust for their country Lord Nelson's legacy of heroic spirit.
But I suppose that everyone's
conception of the passion is formed on his own idiosyncrasies, and it is different with every different person.
Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things, had no terms wherein that language could express them, which made the difficulty almost insuperable, to give my master any
conception of what I meant.
This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the ancients, when dealing with problems of motion admits the
conception of the infinitely small, and so conforms to the chief condition of motion
For example, throughout the greater part of the sixth book, the causes of the corruption of philosophy and the conception of the idea of good are discussed with Adeimantus.
There is no evidence that either the idea of good or the conception of a perfect State were comprehended in the Socratic teaching, though he certainly dwelt on the nature of the universal and of final causes (cp.
This latter conception is the principle on which the mixed constitution is based.
The causes of revolutions are not described as primarily changes in the conception of the common good, but changes in the military or economic power of the several classes in the state.
We see in Aristotle's defence of slavery how the conception of nature as the ideal can have a debasing influence upon views of practical politics.
Based on the aforementioned and the studies of , five
conceptions about the right to life are identified:
