...perspective: The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, even moral preference are exercised only in making...choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or desiring what is best.31 The follower of customary norms and practices needs no faculties but "the...

...distinctive endowments of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference,...are exercised only in making a choice. . . . He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other...

...pp. 11-13. endowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference are exercised only in making a choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the...

...(3b). In On Liberty, Mill maintained that the human faculties of perception, judgment, discrimination, feeling, mental activity and even moral preference are exercised only in making a choice. . . . The mental and the moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. . . . He...

...between variety and activity is choice. 'The human faculties of perception, judgement, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice.'33 Without people having to make choices, their 'mental and moral powers' rust, their 'feelings...

...educate or develop in him any of the qualities that are the distinctive endowment of a human being. ... He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice . . . The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it. We should...

..."own" choice. Thus, Mill repeatedly criticizes the man who "conform[s] to custom, merely as custom. ... He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice." 38 The man who does not desire liberty is to be understood, then, as a man to whom it does not occur...

...independence." "An Early Essay by Harriet Taylor," in FA Hayek, Mill and Harriet Taylor, 275-76. ment were "exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice." A person with individuality was constrained: "Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary...

...It is acquired by effort and practice: 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. The faculties are...

...separate utilitarian grounds. First, holding that autonomy is constituent of humans' highest good and that "the mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used,"" Mill argued that in order to realize human happiness, the capacity for autonomy must be promoted and...