 Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.  liberty - Страница 107по john stuart mill - 1859Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Nicola Bown - 2001 - 264 страници
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.93 In this famous passage from On Liberty (\ 859), Mill opposes an organic model of human nature... | |
 | Louis Groarke - 2002 - 334 страници
...As Mill observes: "Human nature is not a machine ... but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."55 Every person possesses a potential for individual genius that needs to be nurtured, affirmed,... | |
 | G. W. Smith - 2002 - 322 страници
...are Millian utilitarians by nature. Thus, Mill argues that human nature must be allowed to develop 'according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing'. Character formation is the development of an 'authentic' self. Only a 'person whose desires and impulses... | |
 | Nicholas P. Guehlstorf - 2004 - 216 страници
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed ior it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. . .To a certain extent it is admitted that our understanding should be our own: but there is not the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 2005 - 149 страници
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of...that it is desirable people should exercise their understandinp, and that an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 страници
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. — JOHN STUART MILL I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere.... | |
 | Maria H. Morales - 2005 - 216 страници
...Liberty, 'is not a machine to be built after a model . . . but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing'.-9 Whether Mill's totally unmechanistic conception of human nature prevents him from being called... | |
 | Anthony Appiah - 2005 - 388 страници
...a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow . . . according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing," Mill told us. His metaphor makes the constraints apparent: a tree, whatever the circumstances, does... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 2006 - 150 страници
...in importance surely is man himself; human nature 'is ... a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides , according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing'. In true Romantic vein, Mill insisted 'emphatically on the importance of genius, and the necessity of... | |
 | John R. Fitzpatrick - 2006 - 191 страници
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. But what is so wrong with such a diminished life? How can a utilitarian argue that the happiness of... | |
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