PHIL 1034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: John Stuart Mill
1 Dec 2015
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Mill claims that his argument has two branches, corresponding to two hypotheses". The censored opinions might be true, or they might be false. Mill claims that all silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility . He says it"s possible that it"s true, and even if it"s not true, how can you prove that it"s note. The objector is worried that we can"t have any legislation if every censorship is an assumption. Mills objects - even if we make it we continually to discuss, advocate, and change it. Unlike other legislation though, censorship prevents further discussion. If we don"t have discussion anymore, we don"t provide people with the opportunity to. The only condition we have to be free or certain of anything are conditions of open discussion. On p 22 mil says that some people base their claim for censorship not on truth but on the. Some people want censorship because it protects society from harmful consequences.
