Judge against
"Neither efficiency nor comfort nor affluence is a criterion for the quality of change. Only the reaction of the human heart to change indicates the objective value of that change. All measures of change which disregard the response of the human heart are either evil or naïve. Development is not judged against a rule but against an experience. And this experience is not available through the study of tables but through the celebration of shared experience: dialogue, controversy, play, poetry—in short, self-realization in creative leisure." (Ivan Illich, Celebration of Awareness)
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alibey1917 What does the emphasized sentence say exactly? Those darned polyglots. Ya gotta love 'em.
- alibey1917 What does the emphasized sentence say exactly?
- Those darned polyglots.
- Ya gotta love 'em.
- Development is the furtherance of mankind's abilities.
- "Judge against" is a recently coined collocation, to be kind.
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alibey1917What does the emphasized sentence say exactly?
Those darned polyglots. Ya gotta love 'em. Development is the furtherance of mankind's abilities. "Judge against" is a recently coined collocation, to be kind. To judge an action against something appears to mean to appraise the action using the criteria of that something. The rule is some quantifiabl
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