 A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit...  liberty - Pagina 60door john stuart mill - 1859Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pagina’s
...possibilities of intellectual development and fearless innovation have been effectively done away with: A state of things in which a large portion of the...inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 648 pagina’s
...as they do already. But the price paid for this sort of intellectual pacification, is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. A state...inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 476 pagina’s
...survive, but their existence will make little contribution to the general good if, as Mill puts it, 'the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts'.38 The alternative views... | |
 | Joseph Hamburger - 2001 - 260 pagina’s
...constraints, he complained — again, this was in On Liberty — were an obstacle to anyone playing that role. A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects tìnti it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 pagina’s
...opinions . . . [and the] price [they pay] for this sort of intellectual pacification, is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. A state...inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what... | |
 | Robert Devigne - 2008 - 319 pagina’s
...the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and general convictions within their own breasts, and attempt,...to the public, to fit as much as they can of their conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced.36 Unlike Machiavelli and Rousseau, Mill... | |
 | Albert A. Anderson - 2008 - 356 pagina’s
...has passed away, never to return? sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. This is a state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects finds it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own... | |
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