 | Hans Oberdiek - 2001 - 196 страници
...account. Mill is no Hegelian, but he uses Hegelian metaphors to support his position: "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set...tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."31 What Mill overlooks, however, is the real possibility that one can have a developed character... | |
 | Nicola Bown - 2001 - 264 страници
...world, and who assuredly are but starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set...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
...directions according to some interior principle. As Mill observes: "Human nature is not a machine ... but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself...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
...Human nature is not a machine to he built alter a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed ior it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop...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... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 страници
...penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. — NANCY ASTOR Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set...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
...other works. 'Human nature', he says in On Liberty, 'is not a machine to be built after a model . . . but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself...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... | |
 | John R. Fitzpatrick - 2006 - 191 страници
...world, and who assuredly are but starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set...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... | |
 | Michael Losonsky - 2006 - 304 страници
...exactly the work prescribed for it," Mill writes in his discussion of individuality in On Liberty, "but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself...tendency of the inward forces which make it a living being" (1974, 18:263). Our understanding is our own as well as our desires and impulses, and the individuality... | |
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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. 
