That is, what promotes the general good is the development of human intellect, but the general good just is the development of the human intellect.
But he rarely spoke about sports, preferring to stress the importance of the development of intellect in the making of a naval officer.
Indeed, Godwin's account of pleasure, in terms of the development of intellect and the exercise of its powers, means that the position looks more like perfectionism than it does a form of hedonistic utilitarianism (what is valued is the ideal as much as the pleasures which are integral to it).
Has there been spiritual evolution parallel to the development of our intellect?
"Up until the early 1900s, there was a widespread understanding that the use of the hands was essential to the development of character and intellect," said Mr. Stowe, 62. "More recently, we've had this idea that every child should go to college and that the preparation for careers in manual arts was no longer required".
Paradoxically, though, this combination of political stability and religious controversy may have been quite fortuitous for the development of Shakespeare's intellect and narrative gifts and for the great theatrical tradition of which he was a part.
Beginning in the colonial period, formal education was required to create a better, more enlightened society through the development of intellect as well as moral and spiritual character.
It is in this last stage of the intellect's development that conjunction, ittisâl, with the Agent Intellect, is experienced, it being a unification (ittihâd) of subject and object.[64] Averroes struggled more than his predecessors with the notion of the potential or "material" intellect.
Plotinus, the school's chief representative, followed Aristotle wherever he found a possibility of agreement or development, as he did in Aristotle's theory of the intellect.
