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This 4 page paper discusses the arguments of John Stuart Mill and his essay, On Liberty. A critique of his use of examples, with quotes, included. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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into sharper focus by revealing their contraries. This thought underlies the arguments and examples of John Stuart Mill in his work, On Liberty. In the first chapter of his essay
he addresses the issue of civil liberty and freedom from tyranny. Thus, ensuring liberty, he offers, can only come from the adoption of those rights which cannot be dismissed or
tampered with by any leader, and secondly, that there be some sort of checks and balances that safeguarded the society against abuses of power by the government. What one
can tell is that in a large part his arguments do depend upon the examples he offers. This first example that he offers is the least offensive of the several
examples that he offers throughout the manuscript. And, while his arguments offer some sense of logic, in the long run his ideas about mankinds ability to only be governed by
the pleasure or pain responses is outdated and without logic when examined. "Only part of a mans behaviour for which he should be subject to social coercion is that
which concerns others without their free and undeceived consent. Principle amounts to a limitation of morality to this sort of behaviour. i.e. its only in actions that concerns others
that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they operate in morals, that is, operation of social (dis)approval,
the weapon of public opinion, can ever be justified(Mill, Chapter 2, pg 75). Basically, John Stuart Mill was railing against the fact
that morality could be legislated in some way, in the next few chapters, and effectively illustrates and supports his general ideas on the idea of truth and liberty. However, the
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