...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" (I: ^|5). Moreover, Mill foresees that this problem will occur under the new conditions of the imminent...

...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 despotism. (Mill 1859, 933) The concern that Mill aptly expresses here is that without some constraints...

...collective opinion with individual independence. To find that limit and maintain it against encroachment is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism. [1.6] But though this proposition is not likely to be contested in general terms, the practical question,...

...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. We passed the PATRIOT Act in 2001 six weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11. While the...

...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. From On Liberty (1859) §2. THE LOVE OF FREEDOM DE TOCQUEVILLE I have often asked myself what is the...

...in his essay On Liberty, wrote: How to make the fitting adjustment between individual inde. pendence and social control is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done. Perhaps no progress has been made since this was written. If this is true, we cannot begin too soon...