La Naturaleza

by John Stuart Mill

Escrito por JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) entre 1850 y 1858 y revisado hasta el año de su muerte, LA NATURALEZA fue publicado de forma póstuma, junto con otros dos escritos afines -«The Utility of Religion» y «Theism»-, en 1874. Aunque una visión simplista podría limitarse a considerarlo un ejercicio de filosofía de la religión, lo cierto es que sus breves páginas constituyen un importante y elaborado manifiesto en el que quedan apuntadas las ideas milleanas definitivas acerca de la naturaleza y la relación que el hombre ha de mantener con ella.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Religion

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 23, 2003

About the author

John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's.

Reviews

[Yules (some notifications are dropping whyyyyy)]

I am very partial to Nature, despite and maybe even because of its capacity to destroy; it would not be entirely wrong to say that I treasure the “sublime” above all other feelings. Which is why I feel so extraordinarily called out by Mill's essay.

"But a little interrogation of our own consciousness will suffice to convince us that what makes these phenomena [hurricanes, mountain precipices, the sea, etc] so impressive is simply their vastness. The enormous extension in space and time, or the enormous power they exemplify, constitutes their sublimity; a feeling in all cases, more allied to terror than to any moral emotion. And though the vast scale of these phenomena may well excite wonder, and sets at defiance all idea of rivalry, the feeling it inspires is of a totally different character from admiration of excellence. Those in whom awe produces admiration may be aesthetically developed, but they are morally uncultivated ...we are quite equally capable of experiencing this feeling towards maleficent power; and we never experience it so strongly towards most of the powers of the universe as when we have most present to our consciousness a vivid sense of their capacity of inflicting evil."

Mill kicked me right in my hippie, Nature-loving feelings - but we all could use a good kick now and again!

[Paladí del temps · Rating 4 out of 5]

La lumière contre les ténèbres, la raison avant tout.

[nilosum · Rating 4 out of 5]

franchement c’est cool juste difficile à comprendre