Not exact matches
Human intellectual and imaginative activities, Mill claims,
are intrinsically superior to mere sensual pleasure — «It
is better to
be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to
be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied» (U 14).
Thus, neither approach
is intrinsically superior to the other.
For a long time it
's been clear that abstraction
is merely one contemporary art form, not
intrinsically superior to any other.
There
is nothing
intrinsically superior about asian spiritual and social culture, except perhaps for parental respect.
Marriage «
is not a universal, necessary, or
intrinsically superior institution for sustaining children and families,» she says.
But he
's playing into a very old and unpleasant narrative that
's become weirdly popular among liberal men this election cycle: the idea that we need women in government because they
are intrinsically morally
superior to men.
Under the tender - years presumption, the assumption
was made that mothers, by virtue of the fact that they
are female,
are intrinsically superior to men as child rearers.