PHIL 1034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: John Stuart Mill, John Locke
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The nature and limits of power that can be exercised over the individual. Want a sovereign that is rational and rules but lets them have individual liberty. For locke, people have natural rights before entering society, and the only way they can take. Mill denounces lockean approach of everyone having natural rights and that its morally. Says that the ultimate basis for all of his argument is the appeal to principle of utility our rights is for us to give up our right for them. I wrong for people to interfere in these ways: for every actions social policy, etc. is right or justi ed is right as long as it provides any betterment of net sum than any other policy. Self-regarding conduct - no harm to other, no government intervention is justi ed. Other regarding conduct - harm to others, government intervention may be justi ed.