SOURCE / edition
On Liberty
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Project Gutenberg's readable electronic edition of Mill's On Liberty.
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Mill stated that his liberty principle did not apply to peoples he classified as barbarians and allowed despotism as a means of their improvement.
- supports · chapter I, paragraph beginning ‘It is, perhaps, hardly necessary’
Mill argued that preventing harm to others, rather than a person's own good, can justify coercive power over an adult member of a civilized community.
- supports · chapter I, paragraph beginning ‘The object of this Essay’