Political Science · Political Theory
Who said, 'The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection'?
AThomas Paine
BJ. S. Mill ✓ Correct
CHarold J. Laski
DErnest Barker
Correct answer: (B) J. S. Mill — The statement is from J. S. Mill's On Liberty, so the answer is Mill.
Explanation
★The statement is from J. S. Mill's On Liberty, so the answer is Mill.
★It expresses Mill's harm principle, the core of his defence of individual freedom.
★Society may interfere with a person's liberty only to prevent harm to others.
★A person's own good, physical or moral, is not a sufficient reason for coercion.
★This protects a private sphere of self-regarding actions from social control.
★Mill thus gives the classic liberal limit on the power of state and society.
★Harold Laski and Ernest Barker wrote later and on different problems of liberty.
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