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l’intervention de John Millar, défenseur de premier plan des Lumières écossaises, est particulièrement incisive : « Il est étrange que les mêmes individus qui parlent avec un style raffiné de liberté politique et qui considèrent comme l’un des droits inaliénables de l’humanité le droit d’imposer des taxes, n’aient aucun scrupule à réduire une grand
... See moreBernard Chamayou • Contre-histoire du libéralisme (POCHES ESSAIS t. 416) (French Edition)
John Stuart Mill, looking back from the end of his life on his youthful sufferings, impossible to draw a line that separates analysis on the one side from feeling on the other and to conclude that only the first side is relevant to thinking.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
J. Stuart Mill se pose avant tout en défenseur de la liberté individuelle face au groupe dominant attelé à la seule tâche d’imposer ses croyances et ses coutumes. Dans La Liberté, il écrit : « La seule liberté qui mérite ce nom est celle de chercher notre bien propre à notre propre façon, aussi longtemps que nous n’essayons pas de priver les autres
... See moreMatthieu Ricard • Plaidoyer pour le bonheur (French Edition)
‘exploratory social science’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Aristotle says that good lawgivers have shown more concern for friendship than for justice.
Michel de Montaigne • On Friendship (Penguin Great Ideas)
A good social morality has certain characteristics. It should contribute to the survival of society and of individuals, in a dynamic rather than static way. It should include tolerance and avoid self-righteousness. It should be religious, rather than merely agnostic. It should not pretend to decide questions of scientific fact. It should be neither
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
He did not, naturally enough, as a practical businessman, waste much time pondering first principles.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
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