...his secretary. A searching criticism is contained in DG Ritchie's Principles of State Interference. The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...with the liberty of action of any of their number is self protection. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member bf a...

...legitimate interests. The classic statement of this position is that of John Stuart Mill: The sole aim for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...action of any of their number, is self-protection ... The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilized community,...

...apparently he read John Stuart Mill, learned that "the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individuals or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of...action of any of their number, is self-protection." I got protection and it cost me a box of Corona Coronas, twenty-five dollars, and an old overcoat....

...end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of the civilized community, against his will, is to prevent...

..."one very simple principle" in these matters, that "the sole end for which mankind are warranted ... in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection." Mill, writing a century later and in considerably safer conditions for liberal reform, could speak...

...Mill's unambiguous statement of the harm principle: The sole end for which mankind are warranted ... 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 any member...

...of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealing of society with the individual in the way of compulsion...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 any member...

...denoted the "harm principle" by Joel Feinberg (1973) - governing the imposition of rules in society:17 That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm...

...thought and action without undue coercion or interference from others. In On Liberty, Mill observes that: the sole end for which mankind are warranted...action of any of their number is self-protection. (Mill, 1859, 1991, Ch. 1). Primarily, of course, liberalism is a theory of how in an open society human...

...greatest number would not make for his own.) How to respond? Mill proposed "one very simple principle": The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...action of any of their number, is self-protection . . . the only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community,...