„Lidé si nepřejí být pouze bohatí, chtějí být bohatší než ostatní.“
— John Stuart Mill
Daniel Weis: Everlasting Wisdom, Paragon Publishing, Rothersthorpe, 2010, ISBN 978-1-907611-48-3, přeložil Zdeněk Vrbík
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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“
— John Stuart Mill
Source: Mill, John Stuart. On liberty, [Luton, Bedfordshire]: Andrews U.K. Ltd., 2011 [cit. 2013-08-09].
„What is called the Law of Nations is not properly law, but a part of ethics: a set of moral rules, accepted as authoritative by civilized states.“
— John Stuart Mill
Context: What is called the Law of Nations is not properly law, but a part of ethics: a set of moral rules, accepted as authoritative by civilized states. It is true that these rules neither are nor ought to be of eternal obligation, but do and must vary more or less from age to age, as the consciences of nations become more enlightened, and the exigences of political society undergo change. But the rules mostly were at their origin, and still are, an application of the maxims of honesty and humanity to the intercourse of states. They were introduced by the moral sentiments of mankind, or by their sense of the general interest, to mitigate the crimes and sufferings of a state of war, and to restrain governments and nations from unjust or dishonest conduct towards one another in time of peace. Since every country stands in numerous and various relations with the other countries of the world, and many, our own among the number, exercise actual authority over some of these, a knowledge of the established rules of international morality is essential to the duty of every nation, and therefore of every person in it who helps to make up the nation, and whose voice and feeling form a part of what is called public opinion. Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject. It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just and noble.
Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 (1867) p. 36. http://books.google.com/books?id=DFNAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36
„Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels.“
— John Stuart Mill, kniha A System of Logic
A System of Logic (1843), Context: Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels. No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths; no rules of art can render our knowledge of them more certain than it is in itself. There is no logic for this portion of our knowledge.
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