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   When did John Stuart Mill propose the harm principle?

   • In the nineteenth century John Stuart Mill proposed “the harm principle” as his answer; in the late twentieth century H.L.A Hart adopted a significantly modified version of Mill’s principle and further important versions of the harm principle followed in the hands of Joel Feinberg and Joseph Raz (Sections 4–6 below).

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   What is mill's harm principle?

   • In light of Mill's harm principle, consider Mill's emphatic defense of free expression and discussion in On Liberty. Mill acknowledges two important roles free expression plays in human happiness: an individual or private role, and a social or public role.

   John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion

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   Was mill's harm principle a bulwark against social paternalism?

   • Mill, On Liberty, CW XVIII, p. 276. Turner, Piers Norris, ‘Harm’ and Mill's Harm Principle, Ethics 124.2 (2014), 299–326 CrossRef Google Scholar. Turner argues that Mill simply intended for his harm principle to be a bulwark against social paternalism.

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   Could mill square Good Samaritan laws with the harm-prevention principle?

   • Only the broader harm-prevention rationale would explain how Mill could hope to square Good Samaritan laws and laws compelling testimony in court with the harm principle. Because the harm-prevention principle is broader, it will justify greater restrictions on liberty than the anti-harming principle.

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   The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should be limited only to prevent harm to other individuals. John Stuart Mill articulated the principle in the 1859 essay On Liberty, where he argued that "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to ...

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   Oct 9, 2007 · Third, Mill wants the harm principle to have wide scope. He insists that the harm principle regulates more than relations between government and individuals. Its application should include the family, in particular, relationships between husbands and wives and parents and children (V 12).

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   Sep 23, 2020 · This article advocates employing John Stuart Mill's harm principle to set the boundary for unregulated free speech, and his Greatest Happiness Principle to regulate speech outside that boundary because it threatens unconsented-to harm.

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   Oct 27, 2016 · The harm principle is a liberal idea that people should be free to act unless they harm others. It was proposed by English philosopher John Stuart Mill in his book On Liberty. Learn more about the principle, its applications and limitations.

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   Learn about the harm principle, a central idea in liberalism that values individual rights and personal liberty. The principle states that people should be free to act as they wish as long as their actions do not cause harm to others.

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   Jan 29, 2022 · Far and away the best-known proposal for a principled limit to the law is the “harm principle” from John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. The pivotal sentence of its most famous passage reads: the only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others.

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    Jan 19, 2024 · The reason a separate argument is necessary in chapter 2 is precisely that he is carving out a partial qualification of the harm principle for speech (on this issue see Jacobson 2000, Schauer 2011b, and Turner 2014). On Mill’s view, plenty of harmful speech should still be allowed.