PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paternalism, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham
15 Apr 2016
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On liberty john mill: the law should aford the individual a wide space of acion to pursue her own moral projects and determine her own concepion of the moral good. Thursday: morals and criminal law lord patrick devlin. Father was philosopher and economist: bred to be a great thinker in the uilitarianism, shed away from other children, ironically argues that being away from others is a bad thing. Nervous breakdown at age 20 blames father. Most famous works: on liberty and uilitarianism. Objecive: to invesigate the nature and limits of the power which can be legiimately exercised by society over the individual. Why is the invesigaion into these limits so important: because all that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the restraints from other people. Looks at hypotheical state of nature without law. Can jusify why the state is necessary the beneits.
