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 | William Fletcher Russell, Isaac Leon Kandel, Arthur H. Hope, Harold Waldstein Foght - Education - 1918 - 524 pages
...obscure ways. Liberty he defines in the following passage : " The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means need be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...JOHN STUAPT MILL [From On Liberty, 1859] 1. The Principle The object of this Essay is to assert one whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Ethics - 1922 - 432 pages
...invoked and improperly condemned. /The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, fs entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Debates and debating - 1927 - 206 pages
...history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer. I do not believe that the state of our knowledge is such as...remarks as experience suggests about the advantages and disadvantages of compulsion and liberty respectively in particular cases, (p. 48-9) Let us turn... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...enunciates his own view in the following passage: The object of this essay [On Liberty] is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...society with the individual in the way of compulsion or control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion... | |
 | Kelly Rogers - Philosophy - 1997 - 308 pages
...sclf-intetest i9^ The object of this Essay is to assett one vety simple ptinciple, as entitled to govetn absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and conttol, whethet the means used be physical foece in the fotm of legal penalties, ot the motal coetcion... | |
 | John Skorupski - Philosophy - 1998 - 612 pages
...essay is not so much familiar as notorious. Mill writes that "The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control. . . ."" Commentators have complained about Mill's appeal to one very simple principle; they have said... | |
 | Richard A. Epstein, A Epstein - Political Science - 2009 - 378 pages
...affirmation of the right of each individual to go his own way. The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
 | Jonathan Riley - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...the problem, by supplying the missing principle of liberty: The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
 | Hilaire Barnett - Law - 1998 - 364 pages
...Mill's thought is encapsulated within the following paragraph: The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
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