 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 páginas
...the government was not competent to silence the opinions of those who held contrary views. To quote, "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." It is the business of the government to promote happiness and hence it is not justified in... | |
 | Office for Intellectual Freedom - 2006 - 554 páginas
...points of view. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed... | |
 | Alasdair MacIntyre - 2006 - 18 páginas
...accepted norm. "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."4 Mill, we should remind ourselves, was envisaging the silencing of opinions by government,... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 páginas
...1564-1616 ~ If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873 ~ On Liberty, 1859 We should be eternally vigilant against attempts... | |
 | Gabriel Weimann - 2006 - 340 páginas
...Liberty declares: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person was of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it robs the human race,... | |
 | Mark Mattern - 2006 - 486 páginas
..."If all mankind minus one were of one opinion," he wrote, "and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." As he did throughout On Liberty, Mill offered consequentialist reasons to justify this claim.... | |
 | Paul Spicker - 2006 - 214 páginas
...Mill writes: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.103 This does not mean, however, that speech is subject to no rules. Free speech (like free... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 páginas
...He goes on: If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ("On Liberty," 2.1) 36. Like the phrase "spirit of the age," this view of society as a single... | |
 | John Rawls - 2009 - 497 páginas
...illegitimate. He says: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." Once again, this prompts us to ask: how can the number of persons fail to make any difference... | |
 | N. D. Arora, S. S. Awasthy - 2007 - 472 páginas
...stands for an absolute liberty of expression. The government has no right to suppress it. He asserts, "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that opinion than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." Mill reminds us of... | |
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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. 
