HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Stuart Mill, Individualism, Assisted Suicide
6 Feb 2018
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Can be justified to limit individual freedoms and rights: human rights violations are obvious it is difficult to argue whether or not something is a human rights violation. Even perpetrators of violations don"t deny that human rights violations are wrong: human rights may be limited to a certain extent. Limits of society over the individual: john stewart mill: on freedom (1859) Speaks of the problems of the future (modern day society) Important to question certain ideas and beliefs: freedom of thought is fundamental for mill. Losses on all sides: those who debate, those who do not debate: one needs to be able to think for themselves, cannot simply adopt the opinions of others just because it is the popular opinion. One must argue for what they believe within the marketplace for ideas . Individuals have to be able to live as they see fit: actions cannot ever be as free as opinions and thoughts.
