 The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential Importance of human development in its richest diversity.  On Libertyby John Stuart Mill - 200? - 163 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Education - 1962 - 651 pages
...enunciated by Wilhelm von Humboldt and elaborated by John Stuart Mill: "The great and leading principle is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity." In this ample Plan of Organization there are two noteworthy zones of silence. White does not mention... | |
 | W. H. Bruford - History - 1935 - 376 pages
...on the Sphere and Duties of Government1 which was the chief inspiration of Mill's Essay on Liberty. 'The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument unfolded in these pages direcdy converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity'... | |
 | Clarence Morris - Philosophy - 1971 - 571 pages
...the more definite nature of its commands, and by the sterner character of its sanctions. ON LIBERTY* The grand, leading principle, towards which every...importance of human development in its richest diversity. WlLHELM VON HUMBOt-DT: Sphere and Duties of Government CHAPTER I Introductory The subject of this Essay... | |
 | Charlotte Williams Conable - Education - 1977 - 211 pages
...university's original Plan of Organization and its statement that "the great and leading principle is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity," the women voiced their wholehearted support for this goal and protested that "compulsion in the matter... | |
 | Samuel Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis - Business & Economics - 1987 - 272 pages
...thus follow John Stuart Mill in celebrating Wilhelm von Humboldt's profession of Enlightenment faith: The grand, leading principle, towards which every...importance of human development in its richest diversity.* In contrast to traditional liberal doctrine, which supports a society of acquisition based on the exchange... | |
 | Albert Borgmann - Social Science - 1987 - 310 pages
...articulation in Wilhelm von Humboldt's writings. It serves as a motto for Mill's On Liberty and says: The grand, leading principle, towards which every...importance of human development in its richest diversity. 1 This principle, as Mill recognized, came out of German Idealism and was inspired by classical notions... | |
 | Susan Mendus - Philosophy - 1988 - 260 pages
...truth was condensed in the quotation from von Humbolt which he used as the opening motto to On Liberty: 'The grand, leading principle, towards which every...essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.'13 This, we take it, was appropriated as Mill's own promise - that all the arguments would... | |
 | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - World politics - 1988 - 486 pages
..."The grand, lead principle towards which every argument unfolded in these pages directly converges, in the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity." Contemporary Americans are not much bothered by Mill's failure to provide the philosophical underpinnings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1989 - 289 pages
...(1856), he remarked the increasing tendency of Frenchmen to resemble one another. xxxv On Liberty 1859 The grand, leading principle, towards which every...essential importance of human development in its richest diversitv. WILHM.M VON HUMBOLDT, Sphere and Du1ies ofdavemment To the beloved and deplored memory of... | |
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