Liberty, Equality, FraternityH. Holt, 1873 - Всего страниц: 350 "Stephen's book is the finest exposition of conservative thought in the latter half of the nineteenth century."--Sir Ernest Barker, "Political Thought in England--1848 to 1941"Students of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill's famous treatise, "On Liberty," Stephen criticized Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into "the creed of a religion."Only the constraints of morality and law make liberty possible, warned Stephen, and attempts to impose unlimited freedom, material equality, and an indiscriminate love of humanity will lead inevitably to coercion and tyranny. Liberty must be restrained by custom and tradition if it is to endure; equality must be limited to equality before the law if it is to be just; and fraternity must include actual men, not the amorphous mass of mankind, if it is to be real and genuine.Stuart D. Warner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University. |
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... answer only suggests the further question , whether nature is in this instance to be regarded as a friend or as an enemy ? Every reason- able man would answer that the restraint which the fear of the disapprobation of others imposes on ...
... answer only suggests the further question , whether nature is in this instance to be regarded as a friend or as an enemy ? Every reason- able man would answer that the restraint which the fear of the disapprobation of others imposes on ...
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... answer , if it knew how , ' If you want me to turn mills and carry boats , you must dig proper channels and provide proper water - works for me . ' 33 CHAPTER II ON THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION 32 LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY.
... answer , if it knew how , ' If you want me to turn mills and carry boats , you must dig proper channels and provide proper water - works for me . ' 33 CHAPTER II ON THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION 32 LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY.
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... answered . This leads me to say a few words on Mr. Mill's criticism on the Calvinistic theory . ' He says : ' According to that the one great offence of man is self - will . All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in ...
... answered . This leads me to say a few words on Mr. Mill's criticism on the Calvinistic theory . ' He says : ' According to that the one great offence of man is self - will . All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in ...
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... whether fire is a good or a bad thing ? It is both good and bad according to time , place , and circum- stance , and a complete answer to the question , In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is 48 LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY.
... whether fire is a good or a bad thing ? It is both good and bad according to time , place , and circum- stance , and a complete answer to the question , In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is 48 LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY.
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... answer , except by the words , ' the wind bloweth where it listeth , and ye know not whence it cometh nor whither it goeth . ' The sources of religion lie hid from us . All that we know is that now and again in the course of ages some ...
... answer , except by the words , ' the wind bloweth where it listeth , and ye know not whence it cometh nor whither it goeth . ' The sources of religion lie hid from us . All that we know is that now and again in the course of ages some ...
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Стр. 6 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Стр. 6 - These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.
Стр. 25 - 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.
Стр. 225 - ... the movement of. the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
Стр. 34 - And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost. or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct : the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience...
Стр. 42 - The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and temporarily with the opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals.
Стр. 49 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Стр. 130 - But the strongest of all the arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct is that when it does interfere the odds are that it interferes wrongly and in the wrong place.
Стр. 22 - Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.
Стр. 6 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.