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More on Self-Enslavement and Paternalism in Mill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2009

D. G. Brown
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Utilitas , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , May 1989 , pp. 144 - 150
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1 For example Dworkin, Gerald, ‘Paternalism’, Morality and Law, ed. Wasserstrom, Richard, Belmont, 1971Google Scholar; Feinberg, Joel, ‘Legal Paternalism’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, i (1971), 105–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Arneson, Richard J., ‘Mill versus Paternalism’, Ethics, xc (1980), 470–89CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kleinig, John, Paternalism, Totowa, 1983Google Scholar. The main passages are in Mill, 's On Liberty in Essays on Politics and Society, ed. Robson, J. M., 2 vols., Toronto, 1977Google Scholar (Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, vols, xviii and xix), xviii. 299–301Google Scholar and Principles of Political Economy, ed. Robson, J. M., 2 vols., Toronto, 1965Google Scholar (CW, vols, ii and iii), iii. 953–54.Google Scholar

2 Hodson, John D., ‘Mill, Paternalism, and Slavery’, Analysis, xli (1981), 60–2.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Ibid.

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7 Ibid., 61.

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10 Since the acceptance of this note for publication, I have found a similar defence of Mill's consistency in Haksar, Vinit, Equality, Liberty and Perfectionism, Oxford, 1979, pp. 252–56.Google Scholar