private judgment

noun

1. personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.

Example Sentences

“A paragraph of loosely written language is no excuse to interject your private judgment!”

From Slate

“Let me be clear, SkySilk does not advocate nor condone hate, rather, it advocates the right to private judgment and rejects the role of being the judge, jury, and executioner.”

From Slate

Another alternative is a conservatism that simply resolves the apparent conflict between tradition and papal power in favor of the latter, submitting its private judgment to papal authority in 19th-century style — even if that submission requires accepting shifts on sex, marriage, celibacy and other issues that look awfully like the sort of liberal Protestantism that the 19th-century popes opposed.

From New York Times

“Montaigne is supposed to be the best proof of . . . the victory of private judgment over systems or schools of thought,” Desan writes.

From The New Yorker

We're always judging, sitting in personal private judgment of the movies we see anyway...

From The Guardian