John Stuart Mill developed the liberty principle in his work On Liberty. Mill’s definition of liberty is pursuing our own good in our own way and he believed it to be one of the most important elements of well-being. Liberty is one of Mill’s most famous works and remains the one most read today. In this book, Mill expounds his concept of individual freedom within the context of his ideas on history and the state. Liberty depends on the idea that society progresses from lower to higher stages, and that this progress culminates in the emergence of a system of representative democracy. It is within the context of this form of government that Mill envisions the growth and development of liberty. John Stuart Mill was one of the foremost liberal …show more content…
These are basically the questions from the previous examination, which he likes to claim, and he feels that anyone’s opinion should never be dismissed. First we have to listen to them and then react on it. He said that behaving with such attitude someday leads to jeopardy. Such prejudice or oversight, when the false belief occurs, is all together an evil, but it happens in that form that we cannot exculpate from that and we remember it as a paid price for an inestimable good. According to Mill, there were three sorts of beliefs that can be beneficial for common goods, namely fully false, partially true, and fully true. Mill spent a large portion of on liberty discussing about implication and objects of the policy of never suppressing opinions; therefore, by saying that suppression of opinion based on the belief in positive doctrine is dangerous. Among the other objections that he made, is the objection that the truth will necessarily survive persecution and that society need only teach the grounds for truth, not the objections to it. At the end of the chapter, Mill said that unmeasured vituperation, enforced on the side of prevailing opinion, deters people from expressing contrary opinion, and from listening to those who express …show more content…
Mill said that each have right to receive proper share, and each have that right to speak or give their opinion on that. The individual should chiefly have interested in their own life’s schedule, and the society should chiefly take interest in the individual. Mill described that the person should be left like a free bird, to chase his dream, his interest as long as he does not harm the interest of others. If they harm the others, then the society has an authority over the person for misconduct or misbehavior. But, according to Mill this idea looks like allowing a selfishness in each other’s behavior. Rather than that Mill believed that this liberty system will bring good relations among people rather than the emotional and physical outrage. Therefore, this principle leads him to conclude that the person may without fear of just punishment, do harm to himself through vice. Mill also claimed that the government should only punish those who are harming others and neglecting the society’s rules and regulations, not to the one who is bringing vice to the