Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what... Modern English Prose - Page 399edited by - 1904 - 481 pagesFull view - About this book
| Timothy Beatley - 1994 - 332 pages
...and preferences. In Mill's eloquent words: "the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits, of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character,...consequences as may follow, without impediment from our fellow creatures, as long as what we do does not harm them, even though they think our conduct foolish,... | |
| J. Schonsheck - 1994 - 338 pages
...all subjects" (including freedom of the expression of these), and "liberty of tastes and pursuits, of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character,...consequences as may follow, without impediment from our fellow creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct... | |
| Douglas Richard Letson, Douglas Letson, Michael W. Higgins - 1995 - 312 pages
...and mind, the individual is sovereign.... [Tjhe principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits, of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character,...consequences as may follow, without impediment from our fellow creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct... | |
| John Kleinig - 1996 - 350 pages
...violate the interests of others. We should, he writes, recognize "liberty of tastes and pursuits, of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character,...consequences as may follow, without impediment from our fellow creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct... | |
| Hilaire Barnett - 1996 - 658 pages
...matters of conscience, thought, opinion, expression. It also covers 'liberty of tastes and pursuits; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character;...like subject to such consequences as may follow'. In liberal philosophy privacy is central to individualism as an area of life not subjected to the power... | |
| Louise Harmon - 1999 - 270 pages
...embodied in John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle: [Tlhe principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character;...think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.... [Tlhe only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long... | |
| Hilaire Barnett - 1998 - 364 pages
...exercising freedom of conscience, thought and expression 'without impediment from our fellow creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though...should think our conduct foolish perverse, or wrong'. 91 On this basis, without clear proof of harm, there could be no justified legal restriction. Without... | |
| Max F. Perutz - 2002 - 388 pages
...practically inseparable from it. Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character;...should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong. About freedom of expression Mill has this to say: We have now recognised the necessity for the mental... | |
| Stanton Peele, Marcus Grant - 1999 - 442 pages
...individuals as tightly as any legal restriction. Liberty, for Mill, must encompass tastes and pursuits: of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character,...should think our conduct foolish. perverse or wrong. . . . The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so... | |
| Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - 250 pages
...liberty.53 The purpose of the principle after all is to secure "liberty of tastes and pursuits; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character;...consequences as may follow; without impediment from our fellow creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct... | |
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