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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... impossible one . As regards coercion for the purpose of establish- ing and maintaining religions and systems of morality , it would be waste of time to insist upon the prin- ciple that both religion and morals are good on the whole ...
... impossible one . As regards coercion for the purpose of establish- ing and maintaining religions and systems of morality , it would be waste of time to insist upon the prin- ciple that both religion and morals are good on the whole ...
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... impossible to stop short of this principle if compulsion in the case of children and ' backward ' races is admitted to be justifiable ; for , after all , maturity and civilisation are matters of degree . One person may be more mature at ...
... impossible to stop short of this principle if compulsion in the case of children and ' backward ' races is admitted to be justifiable ; for , after all , maturity and civilisation are matters of degree . One person may be more mature at ...
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... impossible case is proved by the action of the British Empire in India , which governs , not indeed on the principle that no religion is true , but distinctly on the principle that no native religion is true . The English have done ...
... impossible case is proved by the action of the British Empire in India , which governs , not indeed on the principle that no religion is true , but distinctly on the principle that no native religion is true . The English have done ...
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... impossible that legis- lation should be really neutral as to any religion which is professed by any large number of the persons legis- lated for . He that is not for such a religion is against it . Real neutrality is possible only with ...
... impossible that legis- lation should be really neutral as to any religion which is professed by any large number of the persons legis- lated for . He that is not for such a religion is against it . Real neutrality is possible only with ...
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... impossible not to ask and equally impossible to 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 ...
... impossible not to ask and equally impossible to 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 ...
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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.