7 sentences with “notions”

In turn, the new movement led an explosion of pseudo-scientific apologetics for notions of racial hierarchy.

At that time there were a lot of received notions and prejudices, especially against working with human cadavers, which prevented large-scale experimentation.

Renaissance humanism was at the root of some very modern notions of individuality, along with the idea that education should lead to a well-rounded individual.

Ironically, although Social Darwinism provided a pseudo-scientific basis for racist and sexist cultural assumptions, these notions of race and culture also fed the fear of degeneration mentioned above.

According to Kant, the Enlightenment was all about the courage to think for oneself, to question accepted notions of any field of human knowledge rather than rely on a belief imposed by an external authority.

It is also true that people of colour made heroic contributions to the cause of American independence. However, while the British offered freedom to slaves, most American revolutionaries clung to notions of black inferiority.

For example, during the heyday of European imperialism, lofty notions of the civilising mission, the culmination of 19th century liberal and nationalist political aspirations and the rise of truly modern science coincided with the bloody plunder of overseas territories.