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.
The importance of this “simple principle,” whatever its intrinsic worth, arises from the fact that at the time when it was enunciated by Mill it obtained, at any rate as regards legislation, general acceptance, not only by youthful enthusiasts, but by the vast majority of English Liberals, and by many Liberal Conservatives.
Mill himself tacitly, though grudgingly, admitted that there was little in the law of England which in 1859 encroached upon individual liberty.
Let the reader who wishes to realise the difference between legislative opinion during the period of Benthamite liberalism and legislative opinion at the end of the nineteenth century first read and consider the full effect of a celebrated passage taken from Mill’s Essay On Liberty, and next contrast it with the description of legislative opinion in 1900 to be gathered from Lectures VII.
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.
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:
Some people say, Let every man do what is right in his own eyes, provided he does not thereby injure others.
On the whole, Mill's test will not do.
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.