Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.

From this material context men and women develop certain ideas about their world, thereby leading to the core materialist conception that social being determines social consciousness.

Epicurus's technically hedonistic views and philosophical teachings, though opposed to the Hedonists of his time, countered Jewish scripture, the strictly monotheistic conception of God in Judaism and the Jewish belief in the afterlife and the world to come.

Following the French Revolution, other commentators fingered a potential danger of Rousseau ’ s project of realizing an “ antique ” conception of virtue amongst the citizenry in a modern world ( e. g. through education, physical exercise, a citizen militia, public holidays, and the like ).

During the 19th century, Karl Marx extended the concept of materialism to elaborate a materialist conception of history centered on the roughly empirical world of human activity ( practice, including labor ) and the institutions created, reproduced, or destroyed by that activity ( see materialist conception of history ).

* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.

If, on the other hand, the conception taken as the foundation of the system is that the great inclusive unity is the world itself, or the universe, God is swallowed up in that unity, which may be designated nature.

They have in common the place in the work of creation assigned to the female principle, the conception of the Deity ; the ignorance of the rulers of this lower world with regard to the Supreme Power ; the descent of the female ( Sophia ) into the lower regions, and her inability to return.

Some academic inquiries within Buddhism, dedicated to the rational investigation of a Buddhist understanding of the world, prefer the designation Buddhist philosophy to the term Buddhist theology, since Buddhism lacks the same conception of a theos.

" In an interview in 1986, Ken St Andre stated that " my conception of the T & T world was based on The Lord of The Rings as it would have been done by Marvel Comics in 1974 with Conan, Elric, the Gray Mouser and a host of badguys thrown in.

If one has anything like a traditional Jewish or Christian belief, for example then in fact one does have some conception of what God is: God is an eternally existent spiritual being who created the world, and so forth.

According to Hegel, "... the only thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of reason ; that reason is the Sovereign of the World ; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.

Usually the word ukiyo is literally translated as " floating world " in English, referring to a conception of an evanescent world, impermanent, fleeting beauty and a realm of entertainments ( kabuki, courtesans, geisha ) divorced from the responsibilities of the mundane, everyday world ; " pictures of the floating world ", i. e. ukiyo-e, are considered a genre unto themselves.

Jefferson wrote, " The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, e. g. The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity ; original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of Hierarchy, etc.

* The Nazi conception of law ( Oxford pamphlets on world affairs ) by J. Walter Jones, Clarendon ( 1939 )

Geography, for example, deals with the determinant action of general natural forces, such as soil composition or climatic conditions, on the economic structures of a society, and thus on the corresponding conception that such a society can have of the world.

* c. 1200 – Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, in dealing with his conception of physics and the physical world, rejected the Aristotelian and Avicennian view of a single world, but instead proposed that that there are " a thousand thousand worlds ( alfa alfi ' awalim ) beyond this world such that each one of those worlds be bigger and more massive than this world as well as having the like of what this world has.

Heidenstam's conception, on the contrary, was to revive the present by the memories of the past.

This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;

Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.

The artistic generation after Brumidi was trained in the Paris of that time to a more meticulous standard of execution, and tended to overlook greatness of conception where faults and weakness were easy to find.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Geneva was the first of many to present the Alps as a place of allure and beauty, banishing the prevalent conception of the mountains as a hellish wasteland inhabited by demons.

Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.

Alfred's burghal system was revolutionary in its strategic conception and potentially expensive in its execution.

André Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century ( but was supplanted later ).

The cubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, " Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960 ’ s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.

In an age where little was attempted beyond the registration of fact, he had reached the conception of history.

The original conception of Call of Cthulhu was Dark Worlds, a game commissioned by the publisher Chaosium but never published.

Thus the conception of Claudius as the weak fool, controlled by those he supposedly ruled, was preserved for the ages.

His conception of First Cause was the idea that the Universe must have been caused by something that was itself uncaused, which he asserted was God.

Thatcher was described as " a radical in a conservative party ", and her ideology has been seen as confronting " established institutions " and the " accepted beliefs of the elite ", both concepts incompatible with the traditional conception of conservatism as signifying support for the established order and existing social convention.

From the viewpoint of the ancient Greeks, a person's public life was not separated from their private life, and Greeks did not distinguish between the two worlds according to the modern western conception.

This attitude was bolstered by the general conception that the Holy Roman Emperor and all other European Kings were chosen by God to be leaders.

In the original conception of Zoroastrianism, for example, Ahura Mazda was the spirit of ultimate good, while Ahriman ( Angra Mainyu ) was the spirit of ultimate evil.

All too often its conception of parish ministry and pastoral care includes no responsibility for them in their relation to issues of the most desperate urgency for the life of mankind.

This is the most common conception, and it attempts to describe a task in discrete, " mechanical " means.

Air battles have been far less common, due to their late conception, the most prominent being the Battle of Britain in 1940.

According to one view, most people today live as citizens according to the liberal-individualist conception but wished they lived more according to the civic-republican ideal.

The most important part of the Egyptian view of the cosmos was the conception of time, which was greatly concerned with the maintenance of Ma ' at.

John Lindow states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of Snorri's writing in Gylfaginning, and says that when older skaldic poetry " says that people are ' in ' rather than ' with ' Hel, we are clearly dealing with a place rather than a person, and this is assumed to be the older conception ," that the noun and place Hel likely originally simply meant " grave ," and that " the personification came later.

The proclaimed Roman Catholic dogma states " that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

John attempted a synchronised operation involving land-based and water-borne forces, considered by most historians today to have been imaginative in conception, but overly complex for forces of the period to have carried out successfully.

* Tolkien on Fairy-Stories, by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson: " A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form ..."( 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-00-724466-9.

The critical sense and sceptical attitude of the citation of medicine from the shackles of priestcraft and of caste ; secondly, the conception of medicine as an art based on accurate observation, and as a science, an integral part of the science of man and of nature ; thirdly, the high moral ideals, expressed in that most " memorable of human documents " ( Gomperz ), the Hippocratic oath ; and fourthly, the conception and realization of medicine as the profession of a cultivated gentleman.

For this reason, even the name The One isn't a positive name, but rather the most non-multiple name we can think of, a name derived from our own inadequate conception of the simplicity of the first principle.

I have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde, the simplest, yet most full-blooded musical conception imaginable, and with the ‘ black flag ’ that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die.

Rousseau's collectivism is most evident in his development of the " luminous conception " ( which he credited to Diderot ) of the general will.

* Incarnation of Jesus ( conception on 25 March and birth on 25 December ), as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to most scholars ( Dionysius used the word " incarnation ", but it is not known whether he meant conception or birth ).

He also pursued classical manuscripts, making a number of important discoveries, the most important being Cicero's lost Letters to his Friends ( Epistulae ad familiares ), which overturned the entire medieval conception of the Roman statesman.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the play as " Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion " but many New York reviews were mixed or unfavourable, citing anachronisms and a lack of realism in Stoppard's conception.

British biographer Jean Benedetti, who was a scholar and translator of nearly all of Constantin Stanislavski's works, spent most of his later years trying to correct what he felt were gross misunderstandings of Stanislavski's works, including the " over-limited reliance on psychological approaches that led to the American conception of method acting.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ( Princeton University Press, 1993 ): deals with Thoth ( Hermes ) from his most primitive known conception to his later evolution into Hermes Trismegistus, as well as the many books and scripts attributed to him.

In the most recent Italian stories ( post-2000 ), Italian writers have generally reverted to Gottfredson's original conception of Eega as a future-man, though his precise year of origin is rarely mentioned.