 When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.  Aspects of Population Growth Policy - Page 544by United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future - 1972 - 607 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we...exercises through the help or security given him by his fellow-men, and which he in turn helps to secure for them . . . Though of course there can be no freedom... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay, Richard Jay - Business & Economics - 1986 - 282 pages
...something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we...exercises through the help or security given him by his fellow-men, and which he in turn helps to secure for them. When we measure the progress of a society... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - Law - 1986 - 400 pages
...something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others. 16 We mean by it a power which each man exercises through the help or security given him by his fellow-men,... | |
 | Randall C. Morris - Political Science - 1991 - 308 pages
...something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we...exercises through the help or security given him by his fellow-men, and which he in turn helps to secure for them. 46 Freedom properly understood is not merely... | |
 | David Nicholls - Art - 1994 - 342 pages
...contribution to true freedom, which is 'a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others'. Again he stated that freedom was the power for members of a society 'to make the best of themselves'.96... | |
 | Julia Stapleton - Philosophy - 1997 - 180 pages
...something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we...exercises through the help or security given him by his fellow-men, and which he in turn helps to secure for them. When we measure the progress of a society... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - Political Science - 1997 - 400 pages
...be highly prized," said TH Green,97 "we mean a positive power of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others." That is more valuable than the negative conception because it insists on what, in this age, we feel... | |
 | Darryl M. Trimiew - Business & Economics - 1997 - 376 pages
...something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.ss Green's understanding of freedom is a freedom for, rather than merely a freedom from. It... | |
 | John Skorupski - Philosophy - 1998 - 612 pages
...or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something which we do or enjoy in common with others. We mean by it...exercises through the help or security given him by his fellowmen, and which he in turn helps to secure for them. When we measure the progress of a society... | |
 | Norman P. Barry - Social Science - 1999 - 172 pages
...as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.3 Although Green was specifically talking about factory legislation, compulsory education and... | |
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