 Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 3811874Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Fiction - 1998 - 648 pages
...family do not ask themselves — what do I prefer? or, what would suit my character and disposition? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? It is so, on the Calvinis tic theory.... | |
 | Peter Loptson - Philosophy - 1998 - 588 pages
...the family do not ask themselves, what do I prefer? or, what would suit my character and disposition? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 376 pages
...autonomous action: [Ejven in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; ... peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are...or feelings of home growth or properly their own." In fact, as Anschutz has observed, Mill's diatribe against conformity at times becomes so strong that... | |
 | Eldon J. Eisenach - Political Science - 2010 - 349 pages
...inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination except for what is customary . . . [they] are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own." Now Mill is here using the concept of choice in a special, but (for purposes of understanding the new sort... | |
 | Gerald F. Gaus - Philosophy - 1999 - 268 pages
...describes people who have been forced to conform to society's patterns of the proper way of living: by dint of not following their own nature, they have...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. 13 According to these first two claims, then, people possess unique natures; to suppress these unique... | |
 | Gerald F. Gaus - Philosophy - 1999 - 268 pages
...describes people who have been forced to conform to society's patterns of the proper way of living: by dint of not following their own nature, they have...opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own.13 According to these first two claims, then, people possess unique natures; to suppress these... | |
 | David Seedhouse - Health & Fitness - 2001 - 176 pages
...yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like being in crowds; they exercise choice only among things...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? (p. 119)78 The fear and disorientation... | |
 | David Simpson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...social science in the twentieth century: conformity can proceed to such an extent among the people "until by dint of not following their own nature they...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own" (pp. 74-75). To avoid this fate, individuals must be allowed (or encouraged, as is now necessary) to... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - Philosophy - 2003 - 300 pages
...have fair play, and enable it to grow and thrive? They ask themselves, . . . what is usually done? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature?38 I call attention to the toll of that... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Performing Arts - 2005 - 484 pages
...things commonly done; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct are shunned equally with crime, until by dint of not following their own nature they...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? Accepting Mill's proposition that the... | |
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