John Stuart Mill citáty
John Stuart Mill
Datum narození: 20. květen 1806
Datum úmrtí: 8. květen 1873
Další jména: J.S Mill, John S. Mill
John Stuart Mill byl anglický filosof, empirik, politický ekonom a liberální politik.
Citáty John Stuart Mill
„Jediným účelem, pro který se moc může spravedlivě použít proti jakémukoliv členu civilizované společnosti i proti jeho vlastní vůli, je zabránit tomu, aby se ubližovalo jiným. Nikoho nelze plným právem nutit, aby něco konal nebo trpěl proto, že to tak bude pro něho lepší, protože ho to učiní štastnějším, a protože je to - podle mínění jiných - moudré nebo dokonce správné“
Zdroj: Mill, John Stuart. On liberty, [Luton, Bedfordshire]: Andrews U.K. Ltd., 2011 [cit. 2013-08-09].
„Lidé si nepřejí být pouze bohatí, chtějí být bohatší než ostatní.“
Daniel Weis: Everlasting Wisdom, Paragon Publishing, Rothersthorpe, 2010, ISBN 978-1-907611-48-3, přeložil Zdeněk Vrbík
„That a thing is unnatural, in any precise meaning which can be attached to the word, is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.“
Zdroj: On Nature (1874), p. 102
Kontext: Conformity to nature has no connection whatever with right and wrong. The idea can never be fitly introduced into ethical discussions at all, except, occasionally and partially, into the question of degrees of culpability. To illustrate this point, let us consider the phrase by which the greatest intensity of condemnatory feeling is conveyed in connection with the idea of nature - the word "unnatural." That a thing is unnatural, in any precise meaning which can be attached to the word, is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.
„The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth“
""Civilization,"" London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
Kontext: The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. ¶ The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth: and this without a particle of regard to the results to which the exercise of that power may lead, even though it should conduct the pupil to opinions diametrically opposite to those of his teachers. We say this, not because we think opinions unimportant, but because of the immense importance which we attach to them; for in proportion to the degree of intellectual power and love of truth which we succeed in creating, is the certainty that (whatever may happen in any one particular instance) in the aggregate of instances true opinions will be the result; and intellectual power and practical love of truth are alike impossible where the reasoner is shown his conclusions, and informed beforehand that he is expected to arrive at them.
