 That 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.  Actual Ethics - Page 37by James R. Otteson - 2006Limited preview - About this book
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1859 - 802 pages
...right of individual independence ;' for the principle laid down and contended for throughout is, ' that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually...action of any of their number is self-protection.' To this, and, indeed, to every collateral principle laid down by Mr. Mill in this treatise, we cordially... | |
 | Great Britain - 1859 - 584 pages
...cases, with that which warrants legislative interference, he makes it his object to establish that "the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...action of any of their number is self-protection," or " to prevent harm to others." Before we follow Mr. Mill into his able exposition and defence of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...warranted, individually or • On Liberty. By John Stuart Mill London: John W. Parker and Son. 1859. collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action...self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm... | |
 | 1859 - 662 pages
...accordingly. He therefore desires to lay down one simple principle for our guidance in such matters. " The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...with the liberty of action of any of their number !s Individual Freedom. 229 self-protection His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient... | |
 | Henry James Slack - Civilization - 1860 - 260 pages
...force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." This principle... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of puMic opinion. That principle is, that the sole end tor which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...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... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end tor which mankind arc warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering...civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. Ho cannot rightfully... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...of its own." The object of the Essay, therefore, is, " to asserb one very simple principle, — that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self- protection," Our ideas of our neighbour's good may justify our remonstrating with, or counselling... | |
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