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.
Development of the intellect and understanding the self are extended to nurturing the development of others and participation in civic life, all of which provide different kinds of satisfaction the close personal relationships found in the Relationship and Material Well-being factor.
But he rarely spoke about sports, preferring to stress the importance of the development of intellect in the making of a naval officer.
But while Carter's book is ponderous, Tadié's is a thrilling journey through the development of intellect and sensibility.
"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.
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).
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.
Like most abolitionists, Washington had been opposed tocolonization, but after researching other resettlement options, he stated, in 1851 in The New-York Daily Tribune, that if African-Americans were "ever [to] find a home on earth for the development of their manhood and intellect it [would] first be in Liberia or some other part of Africa".
Focusing on the development of external beauty and enhanced sexuality, especially at this early and awkward stage of development can only serve to detract something from a girl's sense that her intellect and internal qualities matter much.
What we see in this passage above is the progression of the soul-intellect through the five stages of the perfection of the intellect described in Avicenna.
