 It is desirable, in short, that in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of...  On Liberty - Page 33by John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...does not lie in the appreciation of means towards an acknowl- , edged end, but in the indifference of persons in general to the end itself. If it were felt... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs of other people are the rale of conduct, there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the... | |
 | Philosophy - 1885 - 672 pages
...deprecation of the pernicious influence of routine on the mind and character, Mill says, " Where not the person's own character but the traditions or customs...of the principal ingredients of human happiness". But, happiness for whom? For JS Mill and his peers, undoubtedly! But, for the people whom he -is exhorting,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...others individuality should assert itself. Where not the person's own character, but the traditions and customs of other people, are the rule of conduct,...chief ingredient of individual and social progress " (chap, i11, pp. 107-109). It is true, indeed, that " in some early states of society individual forces... | |
 | Philosophy - 1885 - 660 pages
...deprecation of the pernicious influence of routine on the mind and character, Mill says, " Where not the person's own character but the traditions or customs...of the principal ingredients of human happiness". But, happiness for whom? For JS Mill and his peers, undoubtedly! But, for the people whom he is exhorting,... | |
 | Philosophy - 1885 - 684 pages
...deprecation of the pernicious influence of routine on the mind and character, Mill says, " Where not the person's own character but the traditions or customs...of the principal ingredients of human happiness". But, happiness for whom? For JS Mill and his peers, undoubtedly! But, for the people whom he is exhorting,... | |
 | Louis Grossmann - Jews - 1889 - 216 pages
...different opinions, so it is that there should be different experiments of living. . . . Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredients of individual and social progress " (" On Liberty," People's Edition, London, p. 33). I... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Whore, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...be encountered does not lie in the appreciation of rqeans towards an acknowledged epd, but in the indifference of persons in general to the end itself.... | |
 | James Seth - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 404 pages
...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs of other people, are the rules of conduct, there is wanting one of the chief ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief... | |
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