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Stenka25 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Subjunctive
The paragraph below is from “Justice: What’s the right thing to do?”
Mill’s principle of liberty would seem to need a sturdier moral basis than Bentham’s principle of utility. Mill disagrees. He insists that the case for individual liberty rests entirely on utilitarian considerations: “It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility.”
In that sentence the verb ‘insist’ expresses the idea that something is important and desirable, and in that case GRAMMAR says that we can use “subjunctive” in American English, that is, ‘rest.’
What do you think of my reasoning?
Mill’s principle of liberty would seem to need a sturdier moral basis than Bentham’s principle of utility. Mill disagrees. He insists that the case for individual liberty rests entirely on utilitarian considerations: “It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility.”
In that sentence the verb ‘insist’ expresses the idea that something is important and desirable, and in that case GRAMMAR says that we can use “subjunctive” in American English, that is, ‘rest.’
What do you think of my reasoning?
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No, it is not that kind of 'insist'; that kind of 'insist' is a sort of command. ) Mill simply 'strongly states'.
- No, it is not that kind of 'insist'; that kind of 'insist' is a sort of command.
- ) Mill simply 'strongly states'.
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No, it is not that kind of 'insist'; that kind of 'insist' is a sort of command. (I don't like the definition 'important and desirable' very much: it is not accurate.) Mill simply 'strongly states'.
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