Show how Mill developed the ‘harm principle’ to limit the influence of public opinion, i.e., of engines of moral repression, over civilized individuals. · Show how it made sense to Mill to reconcile liberty for civilized individuals with ‘despotism’ as a legitimate mode of governing barbarians.

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International Relations – Moral repression

400 words on ONE of the questions on John Stuart Mill from week Three. Read Chapter One of On Liberty and write a full paragraph dealing with one of these tasks: (choose only one of these tasks, not all) · Show how and why Mill spoke of ‘engines of moral repression’. · Show how Mill relates ‘engines of moral repression’ to the ‘tyranny of public opinion’ and ‘the ascendant class’. · Show how Mill developed the ‘harm principle’ to limit the influence of public opinion, i.e., of engines of moral repression, over civilized individuals. · Show how it made sense to Mill to reconcile liberty for civilized individuals with ‘despotism’ as a legitimate mode of governing barbarians. · Show how Mill might have thought that ‘barbarians’ could be improved, and what this means for how people become ‘civilized’.

 

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