...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 no nature to follow; their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native...

...part."'1 There was a "low moral tone [in] English society."52 Human nature among the English was stunted: "by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow" (265). Clearly he did not exaggerate in telling Comte, "I have stood for quite some time in a kind...

...them to have any inclination except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is...following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native...

...Mill made telling comments on the topic of rule following: 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 being in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity...

...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 have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native...

...them to have any inclination except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native...

...them to have any inclination except for what is customary. 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 crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done; peculiarity of taste and eccentricity...

...Foucault, not even from chapter 4 of Heidegger's Being and Time. mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is...taste, eccentricity of conduct are shunned equally with crime, until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities...

...people live in crowds, he argued, "peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are equally shunned with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved" (On Liberty, 265). As the references here to human...

...ones.27 Most of all, blind conformity to prevailing customs cause some to lose their natural potential, "until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved."28 These tendencies warrant skepticism about everyday...