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Paternalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Jack Lively
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What I wish to do in this paper is to look at a part of John Stuart Mill's ‘one very simple principle’ for determining the limits of state intervention. This principle is, you will remember, that ‘the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.’

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 15: Of Liberty , March 1983 , pp. 147 - 165
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1983

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