John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on LibertyP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 468 páginas |
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... French Revolution , a fine speci- men of the best kind of French Republican , one of those who had never bent the knee to Bonaparte though courted by him to do so ; a truly upright , brave , and enlightened man . He lived a quiet and ...
... French Revolution , a fine speci- men of the best kind of French Republican , one of those who had never bent the knee to Bonaparte though courted by him to do so ; a truly upright , brave , and enlightened man . He lived a quiet and ...
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... French Revolution . I learnt with astonishment , that the principles of democracy , then apparently in so insig- nificant and hopeless a minority everywhere in Europe , had borne all before them in France thirty years earlier , and had ...
... French Revolution . I learnt with astonishment , that the principles of democracy , then apparently in so insig- nificant and hopeless a minority everywhere in Europe , had borne all before them in France thirty years earlier , and had ...
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... French Revolutionists against the Tory misrepresentations of Sir Walter Scott , in the introduction to his Life of ... French Revolution ; and though I never executed it , my collections afterwards were very useful to Carlyle for a ...
... French Revolutionists against the Tory misrepresentations of Sir Walter Scott , in the introduction to his Life of ... French Revolution ; and though I never executed it , my collections afterwards were very useful to Carlyle for a ...
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... France , but they had never , to my knowledge , been so completely systematized as by these writers , nor the ... French Revolution the consummation , of the meta- physical ; and that its positive state was yet to come . This ...
... France , but they had never , to my knowledge , been so completely systematized as by these writers , nor the ... French Revolution the consummation , of the meta- physical ; and that its positive state was yet to come . This ...
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... should be acted on , but in order that the higher classes might be made to see that they had more to fear from the poor when uneducated , than when educated . In this frame of mind the French Revolution of July 112 JOHN STUART MILL.
... should be acted on , but in order that the higher classes might be made to see that they had more to fear from the poor when uneducated , than when educated . In this frame of mind the French Revolution of July 112 JOHN STUART MILL.
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Página 196 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Página 191 - Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough : there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling ; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them...
Página 196 - Xlt is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood.
Página 197 - Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.
Página 199 - Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits ; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.
Página 197 - I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being.
Página 233 - Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.
Página 92 - I never, indeed, wavered in the conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct, and the end of life. But I now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
Página 307 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes— will find...
Página 89 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?