...Mill states in the opening chapter of the book On 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...

...clearly the central affirmation of all modern liberal regimes: 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 by physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public...

...*Source: Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 28, 1978, pp. 325-38. Mill's aim in On Liberty is "to assert one very simple principle as entitled to govern absolutely...society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control".1 That principle, which is often called Mill's harm principle, is this: the sole end for which...

...74) 2 Mill's 'harm principle' Mill proposes what he describes as a 'very simple principle' as being 'entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society...individual in the way of compulsion and control'. The principle asserted that 'The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any...

...Stuart Mill On Liberty (London: Oxford University Press, 1859) 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...

...in many ways definitive of the liberal tradition in social philosophy. In this book Mill defends 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...

...This principle has come to be known as the harm principle. 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...

...Consider the following well known passage from 0?? 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...

...on to establish a barrier to protect it. In the most famous passage in the book he proclaimed "one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...individual in the way of compulsion and control." (223) That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...

...Lihei~ty: The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern ahsolusely the dealings of society with 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...