...developmental thinking, as exemplified in the epigraph to On Liberty: "The grand, leading principle. . .the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity." It can also be argued that both Marx and Rousseau adher to this conception, even though they conceive...

...Wilhelm von Humboldt, who inspired John Stuart Mill, described the "leading principle" of his thought as "the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity," a principle that is not only undermined by the narrow search for efficiency through division of labor,...

...extinguished might have been kindled" ("Grote II" 313). Yet as the epigraph Mill chose for On Liberty — "the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity" (215) — would always suggest, Mill's Hellenic ideal represented no direct recovery of an ancient...

...Stuart Mill's essay "On Liberty" began with a quote of the "leading principle" of Humboldt's thought: "the absolute and essential Importance of human development In Its richest diversity." Humboldt concludes his critique of the authoritarian state by saying: "I have felt myself animated...

...he chose the following quotation from Wilhelm von Humboldt to preface his famous essay On Liberty: "The grand leading principle towards which every argument...importance of human development in its richest diversity." In On Liberty Mill explored the nature and limits of power — particularly the power that society...

John Stuart Mill was one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His impact on modern culture and thought has been immense, and his continuing importance for ...

...Liberty [1859] (1910) Mill quotes the German Romantic thinker and educationalist Wilhelm von Humboldt: The grand, leading principle, towards which every...importance of human development in its richest diversity'. create the conditions for everyone to fulfil themselves, which may mean intervening to remove the obstacles...

...Coleridgean strain. The latter led Mill to choose an epigraph from Wilhelm von Humboldt for On Liberty: "The grand, leading principle, towards which every...importance of human development in its richest diversity." As a romantic utilitarian, Mill wanted to avoid Benthamite reductionism, and to defend a secular culture...

...was condensed in the quotation from von Humboldt 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...

...Wilhelm von Humboldt, an announcement that it was to be no mere tract on freedom of speech or toleration. "The grand, leading principle, towards which every...argument unfolded in these pages directly converges," he quoted Humboldt as declaring, "is the absolute and essential importance of human development in...