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On Liberty Mill
On Liberty Mill
Political Philosophy
What is his philosophy?
What is his bias?
What is his prejudice?
What is his predisposition?
In so far as the realm of politics is concerned
Individual liberty is always superior compare
to governmental actions or authority.
In short: If there is a conflict between
individual liberty on one hand and governmental
action regardless how noble it is and if it
violates individual rights, then the individual
rights or individual liberties must be given
premium that is however the General Will.
His only exception is simple: the only time that
governmental action or authority should be
given premium rather than individual rights if
and when another member of society is being
harmed by the exercised of liberty of another.
Social or civil liberty is a protection from
tyranny either socially or politically.
In any case the liberty is given to you either by
law or by concession. In modern times social
liberty is given by virtue of constitutional checks
and balances this is all we know as the bill of
rights, although there are certain liberties as of
today that is not present before that are
considered as inherent.
But historically they are earned through
concession or benevolence of the ruler, or
through constitutional checks and balances.
Today there are inherent liberty like the right to
life which there is no need for concessions or
constitutional checks and balances. In the times
of Mill human life is dependent on so many
things.
Mill define social or civil liberty as a profession
from the tyranny of the political dissident,
the
importance
of
respecting