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    John Stuart Mill was a classical liberal thinker and believed‚ through the influence of his father‚ that man deserved to live a life that promoted the greatest amount of happiness with limited government intervention. Mill grew up with the belief that there was no God and therefore believed that man is born inherently good; government should be limited to allow individuals to make their own decisions from their inherently good instincts; economic freedom provided individuals with the protection of

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    deem valuable. In Utilitarianism‚ John Stuart Mill argues for the existence of ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ pleasures‚ intrinsically separated by value and accessibility (Mill 1863). Examples of John Stuart Mill’s ‘higher’ pleasures include the technical enjoyment of opera or the intellectual stimulation garnered during debate (Mill 1863). ‘Lower’

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    Summary Having already examined whether people should be allowed to hold and express unpopular beliefs‚ Mill looks at the question of whether people should be allowed to act on their opinions without facing legal punishment or social stigma. Mill observes that actions should not be as free as opinions‚ and reasserts that both must be limited when they would cause harm to others and be "a nuisance to other people." However‚ many of the reasons for respecting different opinions also apply to respecting

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    Title of Your Report Mill has many arguments about how to become happy on different terms. He believes that if people focus too much on becoming happy they will end up becoming unhappy and how happiness shouldn’t be their goal. My main ideas are ¨… people who place a high value on happiness report greater feelings of loneliness‚¨ ¨if our expectations are too high‚ we are bound to feel unsatisfied‚¨ and ¨if we become too focused on becoming happy‚ we may forget to be happy.¨ All three of those

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    calculation of happiness‚ in which actions are deemed good if they tend to produce pleasure and evil if they promote pain. A fairly simple concept‚ it would coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Influence by Bentham‚ another philosopher‚ John Stuart Mill would follow with a very similar‚ yet ideologically distinct revised theory of Utilitarianism that would regard not only the end product of happiness‚ but also consider the motive of actions and the extent to which happiness can be created not

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    demonstrate the privilege we are granted by being human. In this paper I will present why Mill makes a strong argument for this case‚ and also contribute some of my own ideas to towards the concept. Mill presents the argument that it is definitely

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    therapist‚ lawyers and philosophers just to name a few. Philosophy has brought to our knowledge many important people that we read about‚ listen too and admire in the world of Philosophy three people that I will be discussing are Immanuel Kant‚ John Stuart Mill‚ and William Paley on there thoughts of suicide‚if we should take God’s name in vain‚ and Rule eight. These men are well know philosophers that have experienced and written many things to broaden our learning. That being said‚ philosophers

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    I believe that Mill would definitely defend Wolff’s right to speak his mind freely in this way on this subject. Freedom of expression “being almost of as much importance as the liberty of thought itself and resting in great part on the same reasons” (71) is practically inseparable from freedom of thought. Mill argues for both together saying that we need to have the freedom to think as we please and form our own opinions whether they be right or wrong and to be able to have free discussion forums

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    An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs‚ Based on John Stuart Mills’ "Revised Harm Principle" The question of whether or not to legalize certain drugs has been debated for decades. Although opponents have thus far been successful in preventing this‚ there are nonetheless a substantial number of people who believe that legalization should be given a chance. Their arguments range from the seeming ineffectiveness of current drug laws to the simple premise that the government has no right to

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    movement has been a popular topic of debate. While many individuals support the movement‚ others who underestimate the struggle of African Americans view it as unnecessary. I believe that John Stuart Mill would have a mixed‚ albeit primarily positive‚ view of the movement. On the positive end of the spectrum‚ Mill would appreciate that Black Lives Matter activists exercise their freedom of opinion despite outside attempts to suppress them. In addition‚ his harm principle aligns with the movement’s

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