POL SCI 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Stuart Mill, Colonial Mentality, Harm Principle
1 Feb 2017
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Pavilion of liberty and the harm principle. Liberty as instrument, individuality/ progress/ truth as ends. Problems in mill"s argument for free expression. Individual and personal freedom from social, religious etc. authority. His work hailed as the most passionate brief. Basis for liberal democracy (individual liberties understood to be primary) Invoked by both the liberals and conservatives in the us on gun rights, health care, reproductive rights, elitism, justification for colonialism. Worr y about masses tend toward feelings and stupidity. Individual liberty and lack of faith in the individuals. Freedom of speech and inconsequence of speech (inferior to actions) Want freedom for ourselves and others to conform. Sources of unfreedom not just law, but also religion, social values, mass doctrine. Explore culture in addition to politics and society in exploring freedom. Freedom to withdraw from others to further oneself. Freedom not free markets only, nor collective/ societal/ together.
