...antipaternalist liberty principle is qualified in the following manner: 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...

...the community of nations. As Mill writes in the introduction to On Liberty, the doctrine of liberty is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity...speaking of children, or of young persons below the age at which the state may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require...

...Of course, Mill continues in the next paragraph to say that: It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. . . Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others must be protected against...

...dedicated to the celebration of liberty (On Liberty). But it is clear that for the English liberal, liberty "is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties," and certainly not to a "race" that can or must be considered as "nonage,"7 that is sometimes scarcely...

...with boxing sometimes is justified? For one thing, Mill himself acknowledges that the Harm Principle "is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties."6 Thus, interference with the behavior of children and the mentally incompetent for their...

...general tolerance. But liberalist theory had already placed an important condition on tolerance: it was "to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties." John Stuart Mill does not only speak of children and minors; he elaborates: "Liberty, as a principle,...

...self, over our own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. [ 1.10] It is hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...faculties. We are not speaking of children or of young people below the age that the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a...

...principle's enunciation, Mill qualifies it by rejecting its applicability to: (1) 'children, or ... young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood,' (2) 'those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others,' and finally, (3) 'those...