New Blog Post: “John Stuart Mill Quotes on Liberty, Utilitarianism, and More”

New Blog Post: "John Stuart Mill Quotes on Liberty, Utilitarianism, and More"

In his essay On Liberty, Mill discussed the nature and limits of the influence society should hold over an individual. It was in this essay that Mill expounded on the harm principle, which holds that power is only rightly exercised when the authority’s goal “is to prevent harm to others.” Those “incapable of self-government” (including children and barbarous peoples) were excluded from the protections prescribed by this principle.