...them. The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. -John Stuart Mill Exercises to Do Now You may want to suggest the following exercises for your clients...

...freedom: The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it'.59 But he also denied, in Considerations on Representative Government, that a truly benevolent...

...presupposes voluntarism — the principle that freedom consists of "pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."4'1 The only obligations that modern liberalism recognizes are those that individuals voluntarily...

...earlier, Mill claims that individuality is the 'privilege and proper condition of a human being'1" and '[e]ach is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual.''1 On Mill's view, ideas about autonomy and what it means to be a person are connected....

...starting-point is the ethical premise forcefully expressed in the Millian dictum that each individual 'is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual'.49 This is not to deny that elements of paternalism are to be found in Mill (as they are...

...them." "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs,...Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to lives as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." The...

...unqualified. The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs,...guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves,...

...a tree, pursuant to his or her best judgment about the best way of life. Moreover, Mill contended, "[m]ankind are greater gainers by suffering each other...than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."85 A second justification for toleration, which I call the jurisdictional rationale, is that...

...liberalism: "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it" (OL, 12). This space of individual freedom constitutes the domain of private life, a domain characterized...

...Mill,152 the only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it. 150. For illustration of how Paul saw this as working out in practice see further below §24.7. 151....