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
| Robert Bernasconi - Philosophy - 2003 - 336 pages
...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...quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.20 Du Bois's conception of the "messages" of race is mystical and collectivist — not the... | |
| Quentin Skinner, Bo Stråth - History - 2003 - 248 pages
...Victorian England find themselves condemned to living under 'the despotism of custom' in a society in which 'the traditions or customs of other people are the rule of conduct'. 37 They think of themselves as free, but the effect of this demand for conformity is to make them censor... | |
| Charles Robert McCann - Business & Economics - 2004 - 258 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...are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principle ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 2005 - 149 pages
...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...principle, the greatest difficulty to be encountered docs not lie in the appreciation of means toward an acknowledged end, but in the indifference of persons... | |
| Norman K. Denzin (ed), Yvonna S. Lincoln - Reference - 2005 - 1238 pages
...non for autonomous beings in Mill's On Liberty (1859/1978): "The free development of individuality is one of the principal ingredients of human happiness,...chief ingredient of individual and social progress" (p. 50; see also Copleston, 1966, p. 303, n. 32). This neutrality, based on the supremacy of individual... | |
| Elliot D. Cohen - Philosophy - 2007 - 312 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. s Mill believed you should consider the "utility" ot an action in order to determine whether it is... | |
| John Rawls - Philosophy - 2009 - 497 pages
...that in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not a person's own character, but the traditions or customs...there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress." That this is a psychological... | |
| Steven Lecce - Political Science - 2008 - 361 pages
...Because of these links, when custom or tradition rather than individual choice is the rule of personal conduct, 'there is wanting one of the principal ingredients...quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.'49 The core of individuality is the importance of the capacity and exercise of self-defining... | |
| Albert A. Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 356 pages
...in things that 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, one of the principal ingredients of human happiness is lacking. This is also the chief ingredient of... | |
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