The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning... On Liberty: The Subjection of Women - Página 105por John Stuart Mill - 1895 - 394 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 páginas
...distinctive endowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference,...best. 'The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, •t— v-^f, ^- -m-' ' • •" *-— •- • *w • '.Hi^...- • --.--j^,i- V. - - „ ' --w^'... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1860 - 798 páginas
...beautiful thoughts and golden truths which, mixed with some alloy, abound in it. DEFERENCE TO CUSTOM. HE who does anything because it is the custom, makes...either in discerning or in desiring what is best. Mill on Liberty. INTELLIGENCE. XASCHESTEB HEW COLLEGE, LONDON. The annual meeting of the Trustees,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 páginas
...distinctive endowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making g ;: ' choice.. (He who does anything because .it is^_ the custom^ makes no choice. ) He gains no practice... | |
| David Kay - 1873 - 242 páginas
...feelings, can only be improved by habitual exercise." — (JAS. SIMTSIN : Philosophy of Education.) " The mental and moral, like (the muscular powers, are improved only by being used." — (JS MILL.) "The mind, like the body, gains robustness and activity by the habitual exercise of... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 98 páginas
...perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exeraised only in making a choice. He who does anything because...moral, like the muscular powers, .are improved only bv being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do... | |
| William Trant - 1884 - 206 páginas
...men to make a choice of anything, and the " human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice." To eat as much as possible and work as little as possible would be the natural result of a state of... | |
| Charles Douglas - 1895 - 330 páginas
...and not merely accidental, importance. " The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice."8 Conscious life is, in fact, summed up in the act of choice : it expresses not simply a part,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 páginas
...another." Cf., however, 'Liberty,' p. 34 : " The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. . . . The mental and moral, like the muscular, powers are improved only by being used." 1 This account... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 páginas
...of - perception, judg? ment, discriminative feefinjk mental activity, and even moral preference~"aFe "exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything...desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like thfi-Jimscular powers, are : improve3~otily"b'y "being- used. . The faculties are called into no exercise... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 88 páginas
...perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exersised only in making a choice. He who does anything because...moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only bv being used. The faculties are called mto no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it,... | |
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