...abandoned the false notion, he was better able to make decisions that brought the results he wanted. "He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. " —JOHN STUART MILL, ON LIBERTY (1859), 3 Survival & Necessity "Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment...

...opportunities involved in self-critical and imaginative choice-making" (Gray, I983a, 55). Says Mill: "He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice" (John Stuart Mill, 1910, 126). Real choices must be, for Mill, autonomous choices. Likewise, "[a] person...

...as well as to intellectual development: The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference,...only in making a choice. He who does anything because ii is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is...

...person who goes by convention "has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation." But "[t]he mental and moral, like the muscular, powers are improved only by being used." So there is a real loss in personal development if a society does not create spaces around individuals...

...distinctive endowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference,...is the custom makes no choice. He gains no practice in discerning or desiring what is best. (1859, 68-71) This is not far from Judge William, and I think...

...see n. 45 below. 8. Mill elaborates: "The human faculties of perception, judgement, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference,...anything because it is the custom makes no choice." A little later, "character" becomes a value term: "A person whose desires and impulses are his own...

...distinctive endowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference...who does anything because it is the custom makes no choke. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral,...

...importance of self-choosing. Sometimes the stress falls on the reflexive effects of choosing on the agent: 'The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used' (126), and their use brings into play such important capacities as reasoning, judgment, discrimination,...

...apprehension, not their strength."71 Risking the discomfort of clashing doctrines is a civic duty. "The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used" (OL, 55). We argue or we atrophy. For Mill the public sphere was a school, just as for Dewey later...

...Stuart Mill eloquently stated this point: The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference,...choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or it> desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by bemg...