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" ... any future use of it, beyond that single act. He therefore defeats, in his own case, the very purpose which is the justification of allowing him to dispose of himself. "
On Liberty - Page 61
by John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 68 pages
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1926 - 84 pages
...position which has no longer the presumption in its favour, that would be afforded bv his volunlarily remaining in it. The principle of freedom cannot require...application ; yet a limit is everywhere set to them \y the necessities of life, which continually require, not indeed that we should resign our freedom,...
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The Outlook, Volume 97

United States - 1911 - 1102 pages
...philosophers, such as Mill and Spencer, have agreed that " the principle of freedom cannot require that a man should be free not to be free." It is not freedom to be allowed to alienate one's freedom ; and, as Sidgwick has pointed out, in speaking of this so-called natural invalidity...
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In deference of fundamental rights

William E. Conklin - Political Science - 1979 - 350 pages
...justification of allowing him to dispose of himself... The principle of freedom cannot require that he should be free. It is not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom."48 In other words, such a contract forever destroys the contractee's opportunity to exercise...
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Privacy, a Vanishing Value?

William Christian Bier - Confidential communications - 1980 - 416 pages
...own case, the very purpose which is the justification for allowing him to dispose of himself. . . . The principle of freedom cannot require that he should...not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom [p. 125]. Thus even within the tradition of liberty there are the seeds of the principle's own limits....
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Political Theory and Public Policy

Robert E. Goodin - Business & Economics - 1982 - 300 pages
...squares his refusal to let people sell themselves into slavery with his liberty principle. Mill writes, "The principle of freedom cannot require that he should...not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom." We might similarly justify censoring people's preferences by referring to our motives for establishing...
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The Sexual Contract

Carole Pateman - Social Science - 1988 - 276 pages
...own case, the very purpose which is the justification of allowing him to dispose of himself. . . . The principle of freedom cannot require that he should...not freedom, to be allowed to alienate his freedom. Mill adds that 'these reasons, the force of which is so conspicuous in this peculiar case, are evidently...
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Liberal Utilitarianism: Social Choice Theory and J. S. Mill's Philosophy

Jonathan Riley - Business & Economics - 1988 - 424 pages
...utilitarianism denies person i the 'liberty to permanently alienate his liberty'. As Mill asserts, 'the principle of freedom cannot require that he should...not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom' (1859a, p. 300). Given that no person can intentionally adopt slavery as his private lifestyle (so...
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Foundations of Social Choice Theory

Jon Elster (red.), Aanund Hylland - Philosophy - 1986 - 260 pages
...person might make, offers a parallel argument against allowing a person to sell himself into slavery: 'The principle of freedom cannot require that he should...not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom.' Notice that such arguments do not exclude anyone from the decision arena. Everyone's preferences count,...
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Harm to Self

Tucson Joel Feinberg Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona - Consent (Law) - 1986 - 450 pages
...free, but is thenceforth in a position which has no longer the presumption in its favor that would be afforded by his voluntarily remaining in it. The...freedom cannot require that he should be free not to be free.27 The first and most natural interpretation of this argument is as an appeal not to a sovereign...
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The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty

Stewart Justman - Philosophy - 1991 - 206 pages
...void" (OL 299). Mill's answer is (in short) that "the principle of freedom cannot require that [one] should be free not to be free. It is not freedom, to be allowed to alienate his freedom" (OL 300). This legal point isn'ta highly charged issue in On Liberty; consenting slavery figures in...
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