 | Alasdair MacIntyre - 2006
...consideration. opinions that deviate from whatever in a particular society is taken to be the accepted norm. "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."4 Mill, we should remind ourselves,... | |
 | Mark Mattern - 2006 - 486 páginas
...under no conditions can this be justified. "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion," he wrote, "and only one person were of the contrary opinion,...be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." As he did throughout On Liberty,... | |
 | Gabriel Weimann - 2006 - 340 páginas
...philosopher of the right to free press is John Stuart Mill, whose seminal work On 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 that one person than he,... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 páginas
...silence the opinions of those who held contrary views. To quote, "If all mankind minus one were of one 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." It is the business of the government... | |
 | John Rawls - 2009 - 496 páginas
...person. This power, whether exercised by the people or by their government, is illegitimate. He says: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." Once again, this prompts us... | |
 | N. D. Arora, S. S. Awasthy - 2007 - 472 páginas
...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 Socrates and Jesus Christ, whose freedom of opinions were suppressed. He says, "Mankind... | |
 | Steven Lecce - 2008 - 361 páginas
...justification of liberty of thought and discussion found in its second chapter. There, Mill tells us that even if 'all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.'37 Were an opinion merely a... | |
 | Des Freedman - 2008 - 273 páginas
...must be respected and disseminated if public opinion is to assume a vibrant and meaningful existence. 'If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind' (Mill 1989: 20). Mill's seemingly... | |
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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. 
