 | Chana B. Cox - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 302 pages
...offers a deeply moving defense of individualism and of 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. . . . The only part of the conduct of any... | |
 | James G. Dwyer - Law - 2006 - 19 pages
...justifying restrictions on freedom of thought, expression, or action, Mill insisted that a person's "own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient...so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right."7 In fact, Mill explicitly excluded children... | |
 | R. Claire Snyder - Family & Relationships - 2006 - 200 pages
...Mill stresses, for "their own good." He explains further in this famous passage: His own good, whether physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He...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... | |
 | Sharon E. Sytsma - Medical - 2006 - 368 pages
...a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to ilo or forbear because it will he heller for him to do so. because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. " (Emphasis ours.) " Our discussion now... | |
 | Nadia Urbinati, Alex Zakaras - Philosophy - 2007 - 349 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... | |
 | David N. Weisstub, Guillermo Díaz Pintos - Philosophy - 2007 - 404 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. These are good reasons for remonstrating... | |
 | Stephen Holland - Medical - 2007 - 239 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... | |
 | Thomas Nys, Yvonne Denier, Toon Vandevelde - Autonomy (Psychology). - 2007 - 196 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good,...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right." 5 Contrary to this view, I believe that... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann - Philosophy - 2008 - 352 pages
...pursue it. Indeed, in an apparent repudiation of any hint of positive liberty, Mill baldly states that His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient...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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... 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... 
