 | 212 lapas
...race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error, No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality,... | |
 | Judy Breck - 2004 - 182 lapas
...race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. 18 Nothing will be more interesting to watch in the functional aspects of the future age of universal... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2004 - 362 lapas
...race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of... | |
 | 274 lapas
...Mill argues that allowing complete freedom of thought and expression has certain benefits. still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they...impression of truth produced by its collision with error." The problem, frequently cited by the opposition, is that other concerns such as national security or... | |
 | Dennis Hayes - 2004 - 244 lapas
...race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they...impression of truth produced by its collision with error. (Mill 1859/1995: 76) Mill's rationale for freedom of speech, is now held to be old fashioned: the great... | |
 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 lapas
...in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. . . . We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and were... | |
 | RC Agarwal - 2004 - 580 lapas
...one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind".6 He further said, "If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error".7 Mill expressed his views about the administration in his book, 'Representative Government'... | |
 | Duane Litfin - 2004 - 300 lapas
...generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is righr, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." 20 Were constructivist dogma established as the starting point for debate in the academy, non-relativist... | |
 | Angus J. L. Menuge - 2004 - 288 lapas
...critics. As Mill says: If the opinion is right, [the majority] are deprived of the opportunity for exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what...clearer perception and livelier impression of truth provided by its collision with error.93 Either way, when dissent is tolerated, society has a better... | |
 | Ben Mark Rogers - 2004 - 168 lapas
...common objections. (1982:97) To ban Holocaust denial, as in Germany, would make us lose what Mill calls 'the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error' (1982: 76). Open discussion will make us more aware of the historical background and reasons for the... | |
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But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are... 
