PHIL 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Absolute Monarchy, Philip Agee, Socratic Dialogue
8 Dec 2016
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Mill ch 2 : of liberty of thought and discussion: mill"s mai(cid:374) argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: regardless of whether an opinion is. A) entirely false, b) entirely true or c) partly true and partly false, it should not be suppressed. (the problem of non-speech: flag-burning, porn) Even if only one person held a particular opinion, mankind would not be justified in silencing him. Silencing these opi(cid:374)io(cid:374)s is (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g (cid:271)(cid:272) it ro(cid:271)s the (cid:862)human race, posterity as well as the e(cid:454)isti(cid:374)g ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374). (cid:863) In particular it robs those who disagree with these silenced opinions. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. The (cid:862)first di(cid:448)isio(cid:374)(cid:863) of the argument (which assumes that the received opinion is entirely false and the new opinion is entirely true, even though the received opinion may be believed to be certainly true) A) mill: perceived certainty is not real certainty.
