 I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on...  Growth Fetish - Sida 9efter Clive Hamilton - 2003 - 262 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Lewis S. Feuer - 524 sidor
...state as too remote to enter the sociological purview, Mill avowed himself frankly as not charmed by 'the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...other's heels, which form the existing type of social life.'42 He wanted solitude and the preservation of natural beauty. To Marx who wrote of 'the idiocy... | |
 | John Gowdy - 2020 - 214 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing,... | |
 | Patricia Ingham - 1996 - 212 sidor
...Such a comment parallels JS Mill's cooler statement in his revision of Ricardian economics in 1848: I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of mdustrial progress. (Mill 1848: Bk 4, Ch. 6, Sect. 2) The only connection that Thornton makes between... | |
 | Julian L. Simon - 258 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...and treading on each other's heels, which form the existence type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable... | |
 | Mark Blaug - 1997 - 756 sidor
...conditions as the coming of the day of judgement. 'I am not charmed', Mill remarks, 'with the idea of life held out by those who think that the normal...of human beings is that of struggling to get on'. American readers will note the comments on America in the first edition, which Mill later struck out... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 444 sidor
...economic growth. In Mill's own emphatic words, in the chapter on "The Stationary State" in the Principles, I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...type of social life, are the most desirable lot of mankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.16 In... | |
 | Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson - 1998 - 332 sidor
...war but a harbinger of the ideas propounded by Keynes and Beveridge a century later. I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heads, which form the existing type... | |
 | Joseph Hamburger - 2001 - 260 sidor
...of the Labouring Classes." In the first of these he implicitly condemned self-seeking by criticizing "the ideal of life held out by those who think that...social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind"; and in describing the northern and middle 1 Autobiography, CW, 1, 245, 247. : Diary, 25 January 1 1... | |
 | April Laskey Aerni, KimMarie McGoldrick - 1999 - 274 sidor
...before the hippies or their gurus or even before modern psychologists were born. In 1857 Mill wrote: "I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. ... There would be ... as much room for improving the Art of Living and much more likelihood of its... | |
 | D. Stephen Long - 2000 - 321 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...elbowing, and treading on each other's heels which forms the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or anything but the... | |
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