The Formation of Character: Mill's "Ethology" Reconsidered
WEBOct 1, 2000 · "Character" is today a key concept in conservative discourse and is virtually absent from the language of liberalism. I argue that liberals can, and perhaps ought to, reclaim the concept of character from its nearmonopoly by conservatives. One way to do so is to look back to John Stuart Mill's proposed "science" of characterformation, which .