 | Richard A. Posner - 2003 - 470 páginas
...than any that Martha Nussbaum has discussed except Hard Times. "The higher castes . . . [must not] lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good...maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, 16. George F. Gilder, Sexual Suicide 255 (1973). 17. Id. at 257-258. some... | |
 | Milton Birnbaum - 252 páginas
...learn that one of the reasons for his proscription of the book is that people might begin to think that "the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside...maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge" (p. 211). Eyeless in Gaza, published in 1936,... | |
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It was the sort of idea that might easily de-condition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes — make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside... 