 The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely 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...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 851873Full view - About this book
 | Steven Lecce - Political Science - 2008 - 361 pages
...methodological objection concerns the absurdity of reducing politics to general axiomatic principles: 'I do not believe that the state of our knowledge is such as...society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control"'100 But Mill restricts the application of his principle both to agents satisfying certain... | |
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