He that has not a mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true principle of virtue and industry, and is in danger never... Some Thoughts Concerning Education - Page 111by John Locke - 1880 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
| Andrea Lynne Finkelstein - Business & Economics - 2009 - 392 pages
...power, or riches" instead of after that salvation.1 3 ' The "foundation of all virtue" being the ability "to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason" tells us "is fit to be done," even "though the appetite lean the other way," a major purpose of education... | |
| Julia V. Douthwaite - Education - 2002 - 338 pages
...must be vigilant and intervene as needed to cultivate socially sanctioned habits. Thus he claimed that "he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present Pleasure or Pain ... is in danger never to be good for anything. This Temper therefore, so contrary to unguided Nature,... | |
| William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...the one who is entirely mastered by others is a slave. Locke goes on to say that He that has not a mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how...principle of virtue and industry and is in danger never to be good for anything. This temper, therefore, so contrary to unguided nature, is to be got... | |
| Valérie de Courville Nicol - Anxiety in literature - 2004 - 328 pages
...taught self-control, denial, to reject immediate satisfaction for a greater deferred gratification, « to resist the importunity of present Pleasure or Pain,...the sake of what Reason tells him is fit to be done », in order to become rationally self-governing and so free self-determining individuals. Self-denial... | |
| Don Hawkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 470 pages
...darkness and storms. He that hath not a mastery over his inclinations; he that knows not how to resists the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, [lacks] the true principle of virtue and industry, and is in danger of never being good for anything.... | |
| Natalie Fuehrer Taylor - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 228 pages
...Locke considers suitable to the dignity of a rational creature and constitutes virtue. "He that has not mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how...principle of virtue and industry and is in danger never to be good for anything" (STCE, 32). Locke offers two means by which a person's virtue may be... | |
| Rod Parker-Rees, Jenny Willan - Early childhood education - 2006 - 384 pages
...considered, what is to be aimed at in an ingenuous Education; and upon what it turns. 1. He that has not a Mastery over his Inclinations, he that knows not how...him is fit to be done, wants the true Principle of Vertue and Industry; and is in danger never to be good for any thing. This Temper therefore, so contrary... | |
| Larry Chang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 826 pages
...rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton, 1608-1674 ~ He that has not mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how...resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain ... is in danger of never being good for anything. -John Locke, 1632-1704He that would be superior... | |
| Roger Woolhouse - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 35 pages
...general principles that should be followed. A child must learn "mastery over his inclinations" and "how to resist the importunity of present pleasure,...sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done", though his mind must not "be curbed, and humbled too much" (if the tutor knows how to steer the course... | |
| Robert Brecher - Philosophy - 1997 - 236 pages
...Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977, p. 221: 'He that has not a mastery over his mclinations, he that knows not how to resist the importunity of...principle of virtue and industry, and is in danger never to be good for any thing.' 27 Yolton, Tlie Locke Reader, pp. 275-6. See also Locke, Essay Conrerning... | |
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