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" ... the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled... "
Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California - Page 283
by California. Supreme Court - 1875
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Formal Transgression: John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of International Affairs

Eddy M. Souffrant - History - 2000 - 196 pages
...liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right.8 The limits, therefore, to the expression...
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Classical Foundations of Liberty and Property

Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Regulating Morality: A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering the ...

Hans Krabbendam, H.-M. T. D. ten Napel - Law - 2000 - 244 pages
...passage Mill had summarized his liberal doctrine thus: The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilized community...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.7 In the course of a century Mill's liberalism...
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Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization, Decriminalization, and Harm Reduction ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources - Law - 2000 - 318 pages
...good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do so or forbear because it will be better for him to do...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, lo do so would be wise or even right. 169 There are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization, Decriminalization, and Harm Reduction ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources - Law - 2000 - 312 pages
...not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled lo do so or forbear because it will bo better for him to do so. because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, lo do so would be wise or even right. 169 There are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Freedom: An Introduction with Readings

Nigel Warburton - Philosophy - 2001 - 272 pages
...a sufficiant warrant. He cannot rightfully be compalled to do or forbear because it will be befter for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opimons of others, to do so would be wise or evan right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with...
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Die Moralphilosophie John Stuart Mills

Manuel GarcĂ­a Pazos - Ethics - 1999 - 268 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the qpintons of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Ethics Primer of the American Psychiatric Association

American Psychiatric Association - Medical - 2008 - 120 pages
...their position is John Stuart Mill's treatise On Liberty: [The) only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. (Mill 1912, p. 15) Involuntary Treatment...
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The Patient Self-Determination Act: Meeting the Challenges in Patient Care

Lawrence P. Ulrich - Medical - 2001 - 370 pages
...On liberty. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986, page 16. "[T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance

Hans Oberdiek - Philosophy - 2001 - 196 pages
...the neutrality thesis from a broadly utilitarian outlook: [T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right.22 Others contend that the state is not the...
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