But the best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. Growth Fetish - Sida 9efter Clive Hamilton - 2003 - 262 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 676 sidor
...riches and poverty removed, even if some eggs be broken for the omelette. We agree with your book that "the best state for human nature is that in which,...while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer". (Pol. E., IV, VI, 2.) In your enthusiasm of humanity as Seely called it, or passion for the public... | |
| Jacob Jan Krabbe, Willem Heijman - 1992 - 254 sidor
...necessary condition for reaching the stationary state, which is also a mental and moral state of being: The best state for human nature is that in which,...thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. (Mill, 1848, pp. 748-749). He was of the opinion that, because of the accumulation of capital,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 516 sidor
...object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be open to all, without favour or partiality. But the best state for human nature is that in which,...back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. That the energies of mankind should be kept in employment by the struggle for riches, as they... | |
| John Skorupski - 1998 - 612 sidor
...be enjoyed by all, and no one will any longer be subjected to a "life of drudgery and imprisonment": "no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by efforts of others to push themselves forward" (CW III:754). There will certainly be no industrious... | |
| Joseph Hamburger - 2001 - 260 sidor
...disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress."1 Mill concluded that "the best for human nature is that in which, while no one is...thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.""2 Mill's strong sympathies for socialism had affinities with his religion of humanity: both... | |
| Regenia Gagnier - 2000 - 268 sidor
...object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be open to all, without favour or partiality. But the best state for human nature is that in which,...back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. ... I know not why it should be matter of congratula12. Chapter 3 develops these themes of... | |
| Gavan McCormack - 2001 - 374 sidor
...kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress .. . But the best state for human nature is that in which,...back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies... | |
| Nadia Urbinati - 2002 - 306 sidor
...Rees, John Stuart Mill, 10. no. CW 18:248, 250-51. 1n. See Hamburger, John Stuart Mill, chap. 6. "But the best state for human nature is that in which,...back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward" (CW 3:754). For a contemporary version of Mill's theory of a stable state, see Rawls, The... | |
| Jerry Evensky - 2005 - 364 sidor
...object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be open to all, without favour or partiality. But the best state for human nature is that in which,...thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. That the energies of mankind should be kept in employment by the struggle for riches, as they... | |
| Colin Heydt - 2006 - 174 sidor
...material ones. The best state for humanity is not one which encourages elbowing and trampling, but one in which 'while no one is poor, no one desires to...back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward'.8 Conservatives The second prominent position on the growth of industrialism and on the nature... | |
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