Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... individual enterprise . Mill feared that too much emphasis on economic self- advancement and freedom would lead to the neglect of moral progress , which to his mind was essentially a matter of individual freedom . / However , in his ...
... individual enterprise . Mill feared that too much emphasis on economic self- advancement and freedom would lead to the neglect of moral progress , which to his mind was essentially a matter of individual freedom . / However , in his ...
Page 117
... individual , imagining himself the highest and wisest . Such do not properly belong to this category . For the fancies which the individual in his isolation indulges , cannot be the model for universal reality ; just as universal law is ...
... individual , imagining himself the highest and wisest . Such do not properly belong to this category . For the fancies which the individual in his isolation indulges , cannot be the model for universal reality ; just as universal law is ...
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... individual , in his relations to other individuals , thus limited his freedom , in order that this universal limitation - the mutual constraint of all— might secure a small space of liberty for each . Rather , we affirm , are law ...
... individual , in his relations to other individuals , thus limited his freedom , in order that this universal limitation - the mutual constraint of all— might secure a small space of liberty for each . Rather , we affirm , are law ...
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