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Abandoning Manipulation: A Response to Ware's Reply
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2009
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I fear that Alan Ware's Reply to my Comment only serves to reinforce my view that his argument is mistaken. Indeed, without apparently realizing it he concedes much of what I want to claim.
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1 Mill, J. S., On Liberty, Everyman edn (London: Dent, 1910), pp. 151–2. My emphasis.Google Scholar
2 For a recent reading of Mill that makes this point see Ten, C. L., Mill on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 109.Google Scholar
3 A slightly more subtle form of the same distinction is if my description of the action differs from the actor's. I tell him that what he is doing is drinking sulphuric acid; he denies this and says that what he's drinking contains no sulphuric acid. We agree that he wants to drink an alcoholic punch but not an acidic one. If I intervene to stop him it is again – as in the text – solely on the grounds of my claimed superior knowledge.