PHIL 1034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: John Stuart Mill

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1034
• Professor: Diane Jeske; David Redmond

Document Summary

Mills utilitarianism - greatest net pleasure in the long run overall for everyone. If someone goes around spreading an ill opinion, mills says that restricting his speech would. On pg 19 mill claims that his argument has two branches, corresponding to two hypothesis. ". Mills is strictly against censorship largely for the worry about the tyranny of the majority via. 1) imagine censoring q - it"s possible that q is true. 2) imagine censoring q - suppose that q is false. Mill claims that all silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility . If you"re attempting to suppress someone its because you"re believing its true, but thats not.