Using Mill's harm principle, the answer was obviously "no." The fact that society deems certain actions immoral does not in itself justify legal coercion by the state. In Law, Morality, and Society, a collection of essays in honor of H.L.A. Hart, Joel Feinberg published an article he titled "Harm and Self-Interest." There he laid out ...
The principle of no harm is a compromise between the principles of absolute territorial sovereignty and absolute territorial integrity. Second, the no-harm principle is not an absolute principle forbidding any harm, but aims at addressing substantive harm and is a due diligence obligation (McIntyre 2017: 241). In this context, …
The principles of harm (Mill, 1859(Mill, /1978 and offense (Feinberg, 1984) frame much of the debate on free speech (Howard, 2019; Bell, 2021). The harm principle argues that the state may limit ...
Much has been written about what J.S. Mill's position on prostitution would have been, given his defence of the liberty of persons. But there is no need to speculate: his position is quite clear ...
the principles Mill developed for each of the three different stages and the chain of logic leading to the 'do no harm' principle. The paper concludes by looking at the use of Mill's DNH principle as a precautionary principle in the context of the EU's climate Action Plan and the framework to facilitate sustainable investment.7
The harm principle. 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 is not a sufficient warrant (Mill, p23) 2. Mill articulated his harm principle early in his work, 'On Liberty'.
Third, Mill wants the harm principle to have wide scope. He insists that the harm principle regulates more than relations between government and individuals. …
This article rejects the first assumption, thereby showing that defenders of the harm principle need not be troubled by well-known problems with identifying a …
First, the Harm principle expects that algorithms would act to affect social media content only if it can prevent 'harm' to others (Holtug, 2002; Kearns & Roth, 2019). For instance, possible harm ...
According to Mill, disapproval or social dislike of an action such as being offended by what someone says or wears, is not enough to invoke the harm principle and limit personal …
sive conception of "harm," in "Mill on Harm to Others' Interests," Political Studies 26 ð1978Þ: 395–99, see 396–97. 10. Here I endorse the claim that the harm principle is fundamentally about which reasons ðconcerning the social or individual goodÞ may figure into society's deliberations.
The harm principle is often explained as "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.". In other words, people should be free to act as they wish as long as their actions do not cause harm to others. The harm principle is central to the political philosophy of liberalism, which values individual rights and personal liberty.
Mill would argue no. He defines harms as wrongful setbacks to interests to which people have rights. He would argue …
1 In this respect, my reformulation differs from that of Ripstein (2006), since Ripstein proposes his sovereignty principle as an alternative to Mill's harm principle, albeit an alternative suggested by one of Mill's passing remarks.My proposal is a refinement of the harm principle that, I believe, Mill could and should have accepted. The emphasis on …
only be justified to prevent harm to others, not harm to the person inter fered with, is usually called the "harm principle." It is commonly seen as the major basis on which human liberty should be defended, according to Mill. The standard view seems to be the one expressed by Matteo Bonotti, as follows: "Mill's harm principle relies on a ...
This article addresses the long-standing problem of how to understand Mill's famous harm principle in light of his failure to specify what counts as "harm" in On Liberty. I argue that standard accounts restricting "harm" to only certain negative consequences fail to do justice to the text, and that this fact forces us to rethink Mill's defense of individual liberty. I then …
Raz supported Mill's harm principle not by his utilitarian path, but by the autonomy principle. He claimed that the autonomy principle is an important ingredient for the state to pursue a moral good and to promote a good life for the citizens in such societies. 'Autonomous life is valuable only if it is spent in the pursuit of acceptable ...
The harm principle, which seeks to express this crucial qualifier of traditional Hobbesian libertarianism, appears in John Stuart Mill's philosophical work, 'On Liberty', first published in 1859. The principle has informed the development of common law systems and is still cited in debate on key issues of law, such as obscenity and ...
The harm principle may seem simple on the surface. According to John Stuart Mill: 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. He cannot rightfully be …
This chapter Footnote 1 argues that the customary 'no-harm' principle, conceived of by the ICJ as a principle according to which states must prevent activities within their jurisdiction from causing extraterritorial environmental harm, Footnote 2 applies to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions because they are interfering with the global climate system.
'no-harm rule' or 'principle of prevention' is,provided the initiative goes ahead, likely to form an integral part of the legal analysis.2 The no-harm ruleis a widely recognised principle of customary international lawwhereby a State is duty-bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states.3 This
offense principle. psychological and social harm may be comparable to physical harm. difference is based on the assumption that it may cause harm, not that it necessarily does cause harm. an offense only meets the harm principle if it does actually cause harm to another person. experiencing emotional harm because someone does not aggree with ...
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) had such a principle. His Liberty Principle states that people should be free from restrictions as long as they are not harming others. (Please note that for Mill, and for this article, freedom means no restrictions or coercion from society.) As Mill put it, "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully ...
According to the Harm Principle, roughly, the state may coerce a person only if it can thereby prevent harm to others. Clearly, this principle depends crucially on what we understand by 'harm'. Thus, if any sort of negative effect on a person may count as a harm, the Harm Principle will fail to sufficiently protect individual liberty. Therefore, a more …
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2.1 John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle. Given that Mill presented one of the first, and still perhaps the most famous liberal defense of free speech, I will focus on his …
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. Mill wrote what is known as the 'harm principle' as an expression of the idea that the right to self-determination is not unlimited. An action which results in doing harm to another is not only wrong, but wrong enough that the state can intervene to prevent that harm from occurring.
THE HARM PRINCIPLE 359 2. Dimensions of the Harm Principle An initial suggestion as to how the Harm Principle should be formu lated is this: (1) The state may intervene in the life of an individual against his will only if by doing so it will prevent or reduce harm (risk) to others. Immediately, I need to make a number of clarificatory comments.
Mill writes that his harm principle is "entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion" (emphasis added). See Mill, supra note 13, at 9. 20.
The purpose of Mill's essay was to assert one principle: that self-protection is the only legitimate reason to interfere with another person's liberty. In Mill's words, "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."
This article addresses the long-standing problem of how to understand Mill's famous harm principle in light of his failure to specify what counts as "harm" in On Liberty.I argue that standard accounts restricting "harm" to only certain negative consequences fail to do justice to the text, and that this fact forces us to rethink Mill's defense of individual liberty.
Mill's harm principle rules the proposal out out. If the legal restriction passes, the harm principle could be used to criticize it for objectionably limiting liberty. Feinberg's contention is that this is too hasty. It is possible for the state to be fully justified in imposing criminal penalties for merely offensive behavior.
Mill's Harm Principle and Hate Speech Mill, however, is not quite a free speech absolutist, though he does come much closer than many other philosophers. He proposes "one simple principle" to determine when one's liberty, including one's right to free speech, may be infringed. The principle is known as the harm
John Stuart Mill, the architect of the harm principle. Wikimedia Commons. In 1999 the legal scholar Bernard Harcourt argued that the harm principle is faulty because it actually contains no way to ...
