 ... have already said, it is impossible to obtain happiness without virtue, it follows that in the best governed States, where the citizens are really men of intrinsic, and not relative, goodness, none of them should be permitted to exercise any mechanic...  The Economic Review - Page 4661900Full view - About this book
 | Aristotle - 1853 - 434 lehte
...jji^™ 1° the have already said, it is impossible to obtain happiness without virtue ;lit follows, that in the best governed states, where the citizens...permitted to exercise any low mechanical employment or traffic,i as beingV / ignoble and destructive to virtue : neither should they who \. are destined for... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 lehte
...— " In the best governed States, where the citizens are really of intrinsic, and not of negative goodness, none of them should be permitted to exercise...virtue. Neither should they who are destined for office he husbandmen ; for leisure is necessary in order to improve in virtue, and to perform the duty which... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 lehte
...— " In the best governed States, where the citizens are really of intrinsic, and not of negative goodness, none of them should be permitted to exercise any low mechanical employment or traffic, aa being ignoble and destructive to virtue. Neither should they who are destined for office be husbandmen... | |
 | Aristotle - 1895 - 300 lehte
...and that, as we have already said, it is impossible to obtain happiness without virtue, it follows that in the best governed States, where the citizens...goodness, none of them should be permitted to exercise any mechanic employment or follow merchandise, as being ignoble and destructive to virtue; neither should... | |
 | Samuel Zane Batten - 1898 - 330 lehte
...well-regulated state should be free from servile labor (Politics, Bk. II. chap. 9). Again he says: "It follows that in the best governed states, where the citizens...in virtue, and to perform the duty which they owe the state" (Ibid. Bk. VII. chap. 9). In early Eoman times the most noted men were not ashamed to handle... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 lehte
...classes. Aristotle argues that in the best government, where the citizens are all virtuous and happy, " none of them should be permitted to exercise any low...traffic, as being ignoble and destructive to virtue ; " i and Plato, in treating of the ideal state, deems it not worth while to concern himself with the... | |
 | Adam W. Kirkaldy - 1914 - 336 lehte
...unnoticed. For Aristotle taught that in the best government, where the citizens are all virtuous and happy, none of them should be permitted to exercise any low mechanical employment or traffic, for these are ignoble and destructive of virtue. At this point the quotation usually stops, but by... | |
 | Edgar Leigh Collis - 1921 - 478 lehte
...hampered industrial development and progress. Aristotle taught the Greeks that " in the best.governed states, where the citizens are really men of intrinsic...goodness, none of them should be permitted to exercise any mechanic employment or follow merchandise, as being ignoble and destructive to virtue."* Seneca has... | |
 | Edward Augustus Woods, Clarence B. Metzger - 1927 - 202 lehte
...Aristotle argued that in the best government, where the citizens were all virtuous and happy, that none of them should be permitted to exercise any low...employment or traffic as being ignoble and destructive to virtue.1 In the Roman Empire the nobles had slaves or freedmen transact their business and carry on... | |
 | 2000 - 724 lehte
...classes. Aristotle argues that in the best government, where the citizens arc all virtuous and happy, " none of them should be permitted to exercise any low...traffic, as being ignoble and destructive to virtue ; " l and Plato, in treating of the ideal state, deems it not worth while to concern himself with the... | |
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