...problem that Raz examines in his discussion of John Stuart Mill. The latter's "harm principle" — "that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill 1989, 13) — can be regarded as one of the basic principles of political liberalism:...

...understood through the use of John Stuart Mill's harm 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. Under the principle of self-determination, the individual is able to exercise free...

...Jonathan Wolff to be known as the Harm Principle: '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' (On liberty). The questions raised about liberty and the answers given are clearly...

...Position," 68 U. Chi. L. Rev. 313, 364 (zooi). 18. Id. at 32.7. See also id. at 367. 19. "The principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, in Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government...

...are also at stake in debates about censoring pornography, such as John Stuart Mill's seminal command that 'the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others' (see Chapter I)." Of course, that simply begs the question of what kinds of'harm' might...

...solution proposed by John Stuart Mill in his famous essay On Liberty. As is well known, Mill insisted that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others . . . Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ' When...

...Wolfenden Committee endorsed Mill's principle of 'harm to others': '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.'124 Some feminists125 have adapted Mill's notion of harm and applied it to pornography...

...of any of their number is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be legitimately exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. (Mill 1910, pp. 72-3) This is Mill's famous 'Harm Principle'. He offers it as a necessary,...

...action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is [122] Mill, 1991a: 132. [123] Ibid.: 132ff. [124] J. Plamenatz, 1949: 9-10; A. Quinton, 1989: 6. to...

...mind, the individual is sovereign.' The only justification for interference with individual liberty, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which...civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others' (Mill, 1962, p. 135). Contemporary writers such as Hayek, Friedman, Nozick and Berlin...