John Stuart Mill

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The writer of this paper examines John Stuart Mill's philosophical views of individuals in society as well as the limits of authority in society and asks if these perceptions still exist today. This paper also explores the philosopher's 21 point dissertation on the subject as detailed in chapter IV of Mill's "On Liberty."

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"Therefore in analyzing the strengths of Mill's statement he properly points out there is no codified law or regulations governing the individual's responsibilities to the society in which one lives there is none the less an implied obligation to the individual to behave in a manner that is acceptable to that society. Failure to do so, he states, also gives the society the right to censer in a manner acceptable to the society as a whole. In other words there are norms of behavior members of every group should recognize and live by in order to prevent prejudicial behavior toward any member of group of members."

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