The Elements of Politics

Henry Sidgwick

Chapter 3, Footnote #05
A perfectionist conception?


E.g. Bluntschli, Theory of the State (Book v. ch. iv.) speaks of ``development of a people's natural gifts'' and the ``perfecting of a people's life''; but I know no criterion for determining wherein the perfection of life consists and for distinguishing the right development of natural gifts from the wrong development, if the utilitarian criterion be rejected.


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