There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence ; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political... On Liberty - Page 3by John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Riley - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...is some limit to legitimate coercion - whether in the form of legal penalties or social stigma. Yet 'the practical question, where to place the limit...individual independence and social control - is a subjeci on which nearly everything remains to be done' (L6, p. 220). Absence of a general principle... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1998 - 476 pages
...opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.57 On Liberty is an eloquent plea for the ascendant middle class to recognize that its legitimate... | |
| Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensahle to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. Hut though this proposition is not likely to he contested in general terms, the practical question,... | |
| Andrew Bailey - Philosophy - 2004 - 362 pages
...opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs,...adjustment between individual independence and social 4 Commonly, popularly. control — is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done. All... | |
| Enric Olivé i Serret - Political Science - 2004 - 192 pages
...opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism." JS Mill, On Liberty [1859], capt. I, CW, vol. XVIII, pp. 219-220; Alianza, pp. 59-60. que merece este... | |
| Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson, John Sprague - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 278 pages
...opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism. John Stuart Mill. 1859 (1984). On Liberty. New York: Penguin Classics, p. 63. Democratic electorates... | |
| Mark Mattern - Political ethics - 2006 - 486 pages
...admitted the necessity of some restraint of individual action and argued that the key question was "where to place the limit — how to make the fitting...adjustment between individual independence and social control."31 During his time, according to Mill, those limits were derived primarily from social custom... | |
| J. Thomas Wren - Political Science - 2007 - 423 pages
...practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them....' Mill suggested that the answer to 'the practical question where to place the limit -...and social control - is a subject on which nearly every thing remains to be done'.85 In consequence of this particular definition of the challenge confronting... | |
| Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson, Roger Masterman - Law - 2007 - 440 pages
...opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism. But finding that limit, striking the balance between the public interest and individual rights, remains... | |
| B. Jill Carroll - Religion - 2007 - 128 pages
...opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. In other words, Mill detects a subtle tyranny that exists in society even when representative government... | |
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