caa a22 4500 386327858 CHVBK 20180307111700.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0953820800000091 doi S0953820800000091 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0953820800000091 Smith G. W. University of Lancaster Freedom and Virtue in Politics: Some Aspects of Character, Circumstances and Utility from Helvétius to J. S. Mill [Elektronische Daten] [G. W. Smith] Writing in the foreword to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and speaking of his upbringing in Chicago between the wars Saul Bellow attests that ...as a Midwesterner, the son of immigrant parents, I recognized at an early stage that I was called upon to decide for myself to what extent my Jewish origins, my surroundings [‘the accidental circumstances of Chicago'], my schooling, were to be allowed to determine the course of my life. I did not intend to be wholly dependent upon history and culture. Full dependency must mean that I was done for. The commonest teaching of the civilized world in our time can be stated simply: ‘Tell me where you come from and I'll tell you what you are'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Utilitas Cambridge University Press 1/1(1989-05), 112-134 0953-8208 1:1<112 1989 1 UTI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800000091 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800000091 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smith G. W. University of Lancaster NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Utilitas Cambridge University Press 1/1(1989-05), 112-134 0953-8208 1:1<112 1989 1 UTI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge