...On Liberty. Mill succinctly stated the principle there in a now famous passage in the opening pages: The object of this essay is to assert one very simple...the individual in the way of compulsion and control. . . . That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...

...beings, the content of the principle of non-maleficence. John Stuart Mill wrote in his book On liberty: The object of this essay is to assert one very simple...the individual in the way of compulsion and control ... That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...

...regulate both society's and the individual's conduct with respect to the domains of personal freedom. "The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle," says Mill. "That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...

...beings. the content of the principle of non-maleficence. John Stuart Mill wrote in his book On liberty: The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, at entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion...

...impropriety of government interference is customarily tested' and to remedy this deficiency he proposes one. The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple...the individual in the way of compulsion and control . . . That principle is ... [t]hat the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over...

...would offer. I do not believe that the state of our knowledge is such as to enable us to enunciate any 'very simple principle as entitled to govern absolutely...individual in the way of compulsion and control'. We must proceed in a far more cautious way, and confine ourselves to such remarks as experience suggests...

...1984). 3. John Stuart Mill's treatise On Liberty is a manifesto of the principle of negative freedom. "The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle . . . that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering...

...developmenl as much as government coercion. Mill describes his "anti-paternalistic" principle this way: The object 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 and control, whether the means used...

...absolutism. At the beginning of the paragraph in which he introduces the principle, Mill says that it is to 'govern absolutely the dealings of society with...individual in the way of compulsion and control'. Then, toward the end of the same paragraph, Mill reasserts its stringency: 'in the part [of his conduct]...

...formulating "one very simple principle" — sometimes today known as the "harm principle" — that should "govern absolutely the dealings of society with the...individual in the way of compulsion and control." After some clarificatory remarks about this principle, Mill argues in defence of it beginning, in Chapter...