 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 - Ethics - 1922 - 432 pages
...in things which do noff primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...chief ingredient of individual and social progress. •la-jaaintaining this principle, the greatest difficulty to be encountered does not lie in the appreciation... | |
 | William Heard Kilpatrick - Education - 1923 - 408 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...chief ingredient of individual and social progress." Mill, Liberty (London, Parker, 1859), p. 101 f. 409. THE UNIVERSITY AND DEMOCRACY "At bottom and forever,... | |
 | Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad - Communism - 1924 - 142 pages
...of the right to expression of individuality in freedom of conduct. Freedom of conduct Mill calls ' one of the principal ingredients of human happiness,...chief ingredient of individual and social progress '. Mill claims complete freedom of conduct for the individual in all matters not affecting the community.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1926 - 84 pages
...which do not prilarily concern others, individuality lould assert itself.^ Where, not the per, m's own character, but the traditions or customs of other...acknowledged end, but in the indifference of persons in tneral to the end itself. If it were ;lt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1926 - 88 pages
...tilings which do not priiqarilv concern ot1jera. individuakv should as^ffi }<"n" Whpin*| Tint t.ng person's own character, but the traditions or customs...the principal ingredients of human happiness, and qinte the chief ingredient of individual and social progress. In maintaining this principle, the difficulty... | |
 | Joseph Kirk Folsom - History - 1928 - 586 pages
...possible. As John Stuart Mill said in his "Essay on Liberty": "In maintaining this principle (of liberty), the greatest difficulty to be encountered does not lie in the appreciation of means toward an acknowledged end, but in the indifference of persons in general to the end itself . . . individual... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston - Philosophy - 1966 - 594 pages
...enriched in proportion as individuals develop themselves freely. 'The free development of individuality is one of the principal ingredients of human happiness,...quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.'2 Hence the need for liberty. When he is thinking of the value of free self-development on... | |
 | John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Rapaport - Philosophy - 1978 - 150 pages
...rule of conduct, there is wanting one of die principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite die chief ingredient of individual and social progress....encountered does not lie in the appreciation of means toward an acknowledged end, but in die indifference of persons in general to die end itself. If it... | |
 | William E. Conklin - Political Science - 1979 - 350 pages
...social happiness to individuality as an ultimate good, Mill quickly emphasised that individuality was "one of the principal ingredients of human happiness,...quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress."80 More precisely, "[in] proportion to the development of his individuality, each person... | |
 | Computers - 1980 - 301 pages
...institutions to seriously restrain freedom, if not repress it. Here are Mill's words on the matter. The greatest difficulty to be encountered does not lie in the appreciation of means toward an acknowledged end, but in the indifference of persons in general to the end itself. If it... | |
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