10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNASPIRINGNESS»
Discover the use of
unaspiringness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unaspiringness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Considerations on Representative Government
... achievements ; and while the energy is there, some persons will apply it, and it
will be applied more and more, to the perfecting not of outward circumstances
alone, but of man's inward nature. Inactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire, ...
2
On Liberty and Other Essays
Inactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire, are a more fatal hindrance to
improvement than any misdirection of energy, and is that through which alone,
when existing in the mass, any very formidable misdirection by an energetic few ...
3
Representative Government:
Inactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire, area more fatal hindrance to
improvement than any misdirection ofenergy; andare that through which alone,
whenexisting inthemass,any veryformidable misdirectionby an
energeticfewbecomes ...
4
Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
... is real discontent combined with indolence or self-indulgence.”33 The result is
that we fail to strive for more: “ [i] nactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire are
a more fatal hindrance to improvement than any misdirection of energy.
... unaspiringness, absence of desire' associated with passive character (CW xix.
410). Having argued that active character was superior to passive character and
having extended this argument from character to national character, Mill easily ...
6
Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political ...
... citizenry have a “striving, go-ahead character”44 is both a condition of
possibility of representative government, and an ongoing product of it, says Mill.
Conversely, [i]nactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire, are a more fatal
hindrance to ...
7
John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth
"Inactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire, are a more fatal hindrance to
improvement than any misdirection of energy. ... It is this, mainly, which retains in
a savage or semi-savage state the great majority of the human race."40 Human ...
8
The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language
... confuse themselves and others as to the value of their linguistic performance;
that the novelties of expression achieved in poetry leave ordinary speech, and its
literary counterpart, prose, sunk in their essential monotony and unaspiringness;
...
Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Nolan, 2007
9
Transforming Privacy: A Transpersonal Philosophy of Rights
He writes: "Inactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire are a more fatal
hindrance to improvement than any misdirection of energy . . . [and such absence
of desire] generates nothing better than the mystical metaphysics of the
Pythagoreans ...
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Considerations on Representative Government:
Inactivity,unaspiringness, absence of desire, areamore fatal hindrance
toimprovement than any misdirection of energy, and is that throughwhich alone,
when existing in the mass, any very formidable misdirection byan energeticfew
becomes ...
