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  • Someone's Personal Liberties
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    Individual Civilization In the final two chapters of the essay "On Liberty", J.S. Mill discusses a few different subjects concerning individual civilization. The one example I believe is important begins on page 92. Here he discusses how he feels about society trying to help or change a way that someone has decided to live their life. The decisions they make and the actions that they do are completely up to the individual themselves. I will try to further examine the role society plays in a pers...
  • Mill's Theory Of Liberty
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    Individualism vs. Conformism (John Stuart Mill's Theory Of Liberty) by BoB Mill discusses two categories of liberty. The first is the liberty of thought, which deals with the freedom to articulate one's opinions, the freedom to participate in intellectual, political, religious and general debates and arguments, including the freedom of the press. The second is liberty of action, whereby an individual is free to act upon his will, opinions and thoughts. In both categories there is a consistent at...
  • Mills Theory Of Individual Liberty
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    Texts: - J.S. Mill: On Liberty (pp 110 + 17) - Gray, John and Smith, G. : On Liberty in Focus, 1991 (pp 165) - Gray, John and Pelczinski, Zbigniew eds. : Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy, 1984, Chapter on Mill (pp 30) - Ryan, Alan. : The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, (2nd ed.) 1998, chapter 12 (pp 18) - Ryan, Alan. : JS Mill, 1974 - Ten, C. : Mill on Liberty, 1980 - Wolff, Jonathan. : An Introduction to Political Philosophy 1996, chapter 4 (pp 32) Questions: Sample - What place d...
  • Mill's View
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    Utilitarianism At the outset of the nineteenth century, an influential group of British thinkers developed a set of basic principles for addressing social problems. Extrapolating from Hume's emphasis on the natural human interest in utility, reformer Jeremy Bentham proposed a straightforward quantification of morality by reference to utilitarian outcomes. His An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) offers a simple statement of the application of this ethical doctrine. ...
  • Mill's Definition Of Utilitarianism And Liberalism
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    After suffering a severe bout of depression during his twenties, John Stuart Mill found himself modifying the views he had learned from his father. Conceiving mentally his own opinions to supply valuable insights from authors with whom he sometimes had the most complex disagreements. He believed that any opinions might prove fallible, and that the recognition that this was so was the prerequisite for intellectual progress and the core of intellectual integrity (Mill X ). Making an incomparable c...
  • Mill's On Liberty
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    Analysis & Critique of. S. Mill's On Liberty The perception of liberty has been an issue that has bewildered the human race for a long time. It seems with every aspiring leader comes a new definition of liberty, some more realistic than others. We have seen, though, that some tend to have a grasp of what true liberty is. One of these scholars was the English philosopher and economist J.S. Mill. Mill's On Liberty provided a great example of what, in his opinion, liberty is and how it is to be pro...
  • Mill's Theories On Liberty
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    Intro to Philosophy Paper #2 Question 1 The Internet also known as the "information superhighway of the world", is increasingly becoming the most prevalent form in which to gather and distribute information. This issue brings up a number of moral dilemmas concerning the lack of censorship and editorial monitoring in this immense communication system. Some of the questions that have arisen are whether or not freedom of speech should be controlled, to an extent, and if so where would those barrier...
  • Possibility Of An Individual Appeal To Liberty
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    The ideas of John Stuart Mill, explored in On Liberty, give much legitimization to the revolutions of 1848 in Europe. Mill describes human liberty as rooted in free thought and pursuits. For Mill, the individual is the locus of rights because the individual is the sovereign who can decide his / her own subjective appeal to freedom or rights. Personal opinion valued over the majority is another concept that Mill proposes. This advanced form of thinking allows individuals to take hold of their own...

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