 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.  John Stuart Mill: A Study of His Philosophy - Sida 236efter Charles Douglas - 1895 - 274 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Mary Midgley - 2002 - 228 sidor
...free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others. . . . Human namre is not a machine to be built after a model, and set...tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides.1 Why, however, do we need genetic engineering to supply this manysidedness, when we already... | |
 | Louis Groarke - 2002 - 334 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2002 - 232 sidor
...natore is not a machine to he huilt after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescrihed for it, hut a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides. s Why, however, do we need genetic engineering to supply this manysidedness, when we already have (as... | |
 | Nicholas P. Guehlstorf - 2004 - 216 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | Murray Dry - 2004 - 324 sidor
...opinion? The answer lies in Mill's two-part account of human nature. He likens human nature "not [ro] a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, bur | to] a tree, which requires to grow and develope itself on all sides, according to the tendency... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 sidor
...CHAPTER The 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...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.... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2005 - 428 sidor
...living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others . . . Human nature is not a machine to be built after a...tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides.12 Why, however, do we need genetic engineering to supply this manysidedness, when we already... | |
 | Anthony Appiah - 2005 - 388 sidor
...creativity, that there is nothing for us to respond to, nothing out of which to do the construction. "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a...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... | |
 | Maria H. Morales - 2005 - 216 sidor
...development, is summed up in the sentence which uses his favoured kind of metaphor, the botanical: Human nature 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... | |
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