 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1916 - 684 pages
...The essay On Liberty — the most popular of all his works — is an eloquent defence of the thesis 'that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection,' but, as an argument, it meets everywhere with the difficulty... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1916 - 802 pages
...towards Punishment Î Vacuas the relative values of Retribution and Prevention in State punishment. 3. " The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection." — JS Mill. Examine this doctrine. 4. Give a reasoned answer... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 346 pages
...and control, whether the means used be physical force, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their members is self -protection." According to Mill's theory, which was also the. theory of eighteenth-century... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1917 - 758 pages
...The essay On Liberty — the most popular of all his works — is an eloquent defence of the thesis "that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self -protection, " but, as an argument, it meets everywhere with the difficulty... | |
 | William Fletcher Russell, Isaac Leon Kandel, Arthur H. Hope, Harold Waldstein Foght - Education - 1918 - 520 pages
...need be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised... | |
 | Robert Allen Peterson, O. C. Ferrell - Business & Economics - 2005 - 306 pages
...well-structured and happy life. Mill, like Hobbes, was especially concerned about the abusive use of power: "The sole end for which mankind are warranted individually...collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. . . . The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised... | |
 | William A. Edmundson - Philosophy - 2004 - 244 pages
...greatest number would not make for his own.) How to respond? Mill proposed "one very simple principle": The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection . . . the only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised... | |
 | Henry R. West - Philosophy - 2004 - 240 pages
...against paternalistic interference in adult behavior when it is not harmful to others: "[T]he sole aim for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection."4 From 1858, when Mill retired from the East India Company with... | |
 | Raphael Cohen-Almagor - Democracy - 2006 - 298 pages
...used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection . . .8 Indeed, readers of Mill's books cannot avoid the feeling... | |
 | Merle Spriggs - Autonomy (Philosophy) - 2005 - 296 pages
...Mill's ideas but we can see the procedural notion of liberty at work in his principle of liberty: That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. . . . His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient... | |
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