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" That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over... "
A Manual of American Ideas: Designed, 1st. For the Use of Schools. 2d. For ... - Page 43
by Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1872 - 320 pages
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Selected Articles on Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic

Lamar Taney Beman - Alcoholism - 1915 - 232 pages
...liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinion of others...
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Kentucky Medical Journal, Volume 13; Volume 1915

Medicine - 1915 - 658 pages
...numbers is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can b« rightfully exercised among members of a civilized community against his will is to prevent...rightfully ¡be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so; because it will make him any happier; because in the opinions of others...
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Comparative Education: Studies of the Educational Systems of Six Modern Nations

William Fletcher Russell, Isaac Leon Kandel, Arthur H. Hope, Harold Waldstein Foght - Education - 1918 - 522 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good,...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others,...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be ght, Guarding realms and kings from shame, With those will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others,...
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Men and Thought in Modern History

Ernest Scott - Philosophy - 1920 - 370 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member bf a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill. Du Pont attributes to Gournay (1712-59) the origin of the famous maxim, Laissez-faire,...
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Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty ...

Deepak Lal, James S Coleman Professor of International Development Studies Deepak Lal - Business & Economics - 2006 - 346 pages
...supporting Mill's principle of liberty, namely: "The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilized community...others . . . His own good either physical or moral is hot a sufficient warrant . . . He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be...
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The Relationship Rights of Children

James G. Dwyer - Law - 2006 - 19 pages
...justifying restrictions on freedom of thought, expression, or action, Mill insisted that a person's "own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others,...
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Ethics and Intersex

Sharon E. Sytsma - Medical - 2006 - 368 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good cither physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to ilo or...
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Working Ethics: How to Be Fair in a Culturally Complex World

Richard Rowson - Law - 2006 - 205 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good,...either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. (Mill 1974, p.68) We now consider this issue in relation to professionals. Mill's view - that we are...
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Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design

Jonathan Glover - Philosophy - 2006 - 128 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.'2 This attractive principle can be borrowed from political philosophy and applied to ethics....
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