 | John Stuart Mill - 1922 - 432 páginas
...number,:M^self-protecgoji^[ ThatlEEeonly purpose for which power can berfgh"tfnHy~exercised over any member_of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His Wn good, either physical or"rn6raT,~S'"fr61 a^ sufficient wa1rant, tie cannot rignttully De'compeOea... | |
 | H. L. A. Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart - 1963 - 100 páginas
...expresses the central doctrine of his essay. He said, "The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others."2 And to identify the many different things which he intended to exclude, he added,... | |
 | Mary Ann Glendon - 1987 - 218 páginas
...essay On Liberty Mill set forth the now-familiar principle: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."28 The underlying idea of the essay is less familiar. It was Mill's dream that classical... | |
 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 364 páginas
...being and the requirements of his endless development. Negatively speaking, one might say with Mill that ' the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others '.3 So long as the possibility of this harm is there, the role of power, however unwelcome... | |
 | Andrew Dobson - 1989 - 212 páginas
...This is the point of view represented by John Stuart Mill (among others) when he says in On Liberty that 'the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others' (p. 72). We shall see Ortega presenting a very similar idea on various occasions, but... | |
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - 1989 - 324 páginas
...the sphere of the individual from that of society. He attempts this by means of his famous principle that the 'only purpose for which power can be rightfully...exercised over any member of a civilised community is to prevent harm to others'.3 Rees argues, correctly I think, that Mill's principle is best viewed... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 676 páginas
...the sphere of the individual from that of society. He attempts this by means of his famous principle that the 'only purpose for which power can be rightfully...exercised over any member of a civilised community is to prevent harm to others'.2 Rees argues, correctly I think, that Mill's principle is best viewed... | |
 | Peter Singer - 1993 - 418 páginas
...to John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. The'one very simple principle' of this work is, in Mill's words: That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others ... He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for... | |
 | David Trevor Evans - 1993 - 372 páginas
...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 civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others (Mill 1910: 13) So whilst all citizens of democratic states are 'free and equal persons'... | |
 | James Willis - 1995 - 164 páginas
...JS (1859) On Liberty. Penguin Classics, London. 'The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others ...' The classic account of the importance of individual liberty. Morrei!, D (1965)... | |
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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... 
