John Stuart Mill
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Philosopher and author of On Liberty (1859), whose 'simple principle' limiting interference with individual liberty is presented as expressing mid-Victorian legislative opinion.
“These are good reasons for remonstrating with Edition:
Mill himself tacitly, though grudgingly, admitted that there was little in the law of England which in 1859 encroached upon individual liberty.
“The object of this Essay,” writes Mill in 1859, “is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Law in a Free State
Philosopher whose principle restricting interference with liberty to cases of harm to others (the harm principle) is quoted and ultimately judged inadequate by the author.
On the whole, Mill's test will not do.
Some people say, Let every man do what is right in his own eyes, provided he does not thereby injure others.
The principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection:
Economics of Socialism
English classical political economist whose position on value is contrasted with Jevons's.
“Let us turn then to examine the chain of causation in which Jevons’s central position is formulated, in his second edition, and compare it with the position taken up by Ricardo and Mill.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English philosopher and essayist who wrote on Austin's legal classification.
The speculations of Austin on classification almost fill such writings of his as remain to us, and a valuable essay of John Stuart Mill on these speculations may be read in the third volume of his ‘Dissertations and Discussions.
The Rights of War and Peace
Philosopher whose reported remark about the English Constitution is cited.
John Stuart Mill used to say that of all great subjects much remained to be written, and that especially was this true of the English Constitution.