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The Limits Of State Action (original German title Ideen zu einem Versuch die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen) is a philosophical treatise by Wilhelm von Humboldt, which is a major work of the German Enlightenment. Though written in the early 1790s, it was not published in its entirety until 1852, long after von Humboldt's death ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt [a] (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Wilhelm von Humboldt (Germany, 1767–1835) Some literature: Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen (On the Limits of State Action), 1792.
[5] The composition of this work was also indebted to the work of the German thinker Wilhelm von Humboldt, especially his essay On the Limits of State Action. [5] [7] Finally published in 1859, On Liberty was one of Mill's two most influential books (the other being Utilitarianism). [6]
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) – German political theorist who wrote The Limits of State Action; David Hume (1711–1776) – Scottish Enlightenment author of the Treatise of Human Nature; Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) – figure in the Scottish Enlightenment; Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) – Canadian writer on urban planning
In the beginning of the 19th century Wilhelm von Humboldt not only published his philosophical paper On the Limits of State Action, but also directed the educational system in Prussia for a short time. He introduced an academic system that was much more accessible to the lower classes.
The German savant Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) made a major contribution to the development of liberalism by envisioning education as a means of realizing individual possibility rather than a way of drilling traditional ideas into youth to suit them for an already established occupation or social role.
Inspired by the humanism of Bertrand Russell, the individualism of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the syndicalism of Rudolf Rocker, Chomsky championed a libertarian socialism that upheld individual liberty and self-ownership. [63] Chomsky has been outspoken advocate of anti-authoritarianism, opposing limits on individual freedoms by the state. [64]