 It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood.  On Liberty - Page 6by John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William M. Hutchins - 2003 - 298 pages
...to a colonial policy of "protection" of Third World peoples: It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | Jane Fortin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 722 pages
...child's best interests'. Discussed below. 114 JS Mill (1859). 'It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | Jill Peay - Law - 2003 - 238 pages
...Patient) [1993] at 113. 47 B v An NHS Hospital Trust [2002] at para 94. However, this doctrine was meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | Michael C. Davis - Education - 2004 - 348 pages
...state. 4. See John Stuart Mill for the period of the second colonialist wave: This doctrine [of liberty] is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity...speaking of children, or of young persons below the age. . . . Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against... | |
 | Suisheng Zhao - Political Science - 2004 - 340 pages
...Mill mentioned explicitly in the introduction of his classical work, On Liberty, that his doctrine was meant to apply only to "human beings in the maturity of their faculties." Children and young people below the age of manhood fixed by law would naturally be excluded and "those'... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - Philosophy - 2004 - 362 pages
...himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | Samantha Ashenden - Child abuse - 2004 - 260 pages
...childhood figure strongly in Mill's introduction to On Liberty: It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | Mark Olssen, John A Codd, Anne-Marie O'Neill - Education - 2004 - 340 pages
...to children, however. As Mill (1859: 13-14) put it: It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that ... [W]e are not speaking of children or of young persons...which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood ... . For the same reason, we must leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which... | |
 | Maureen Ramsay - Political Science - 2004 - 292 pages
...of the Liberty Principle, It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply to human beings in the maturity of their faculties....children, or of young persons below the age which the taw may fix as manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of... | |
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