PHIL2634 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: On Liberty, Proverb, Forego
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Pleasures then, and the avoidance of pains, are the ends that the legislator has in view; We have seen that the general object of all laws is to prevent mischief. Is to prevent, in as far as it is worth while, all sorts of offenses. The value of the punishment must not less in any case than what is sufficient to outweigh that of the profit of the offense. Punishment should be adjusted in such manner to each particular offence. Mill: mill, j. s. , hyperlink "http://www. serendipity. li/jsmill/on_lib. html" on liberty, introduction". Struggle: but in old times this contest was between subjects, or some classes of subjects, and the government. By liberty, was meant protection against the tyranny of the political rulers. The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of greece) as in a necessarily antagonistic position to the people whom they ruled.
