PHL-2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: False Light, Voyeurism, John Stuart Mill
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The perfect voyeur- there is someone somewhere watching you watching your every movement. Gathering all the information that is possible to get about you but this being is not going to use this information. 60s posser privacy encompasses four things: right to privacy means to be safe from intrusion (overstepping on solitude). Public disclosure- guy"s linked to his anonymous twitter account. Not so much the violator got the information it"s that they shared it. Libel- print and publishing print about a person. Slander- speaking print about a person (through philosophy translation will cast the person in a bad and false light) Filming someone and using it as your own ends appropriation of one"s likeness. Base of words for politics and economics what"s important is polis who you were is who you were in the world not home. John stuart mill middle of 19th century british philosopher only reason for law to exist is to prevent one person from harming another.
