John Stuart Mill · Politics

The Harm Principle

Mill’s one simple rule for the limits of liberty: society may interfere with your freedom only to prevent harm to others - never for your own good.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Mill divides actions into self-regarding and other-regarding. Explain where the harm principle permits interference and where it forbids it, in your own words.

Leads to John Rawls.

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