 | Ben Mark Rogers - Philosophy - 2004 - 168 pages
...individual, has, if any, only an indirect interest' (ibid.: 16); 'If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind' (ibid.: 21); 'All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility' (ibid.: 22). Such resounding... | |
 | RC Agarwal - Political Science - 2004 - 580 pages
...and the toleration of those differences of opinion. He writes, "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind".6 He further said, "If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - Philosophy - 2005 - 316 pages
...suppress the opinion of a single dissident. In one of his most memorable aphorisms Mill declares that 'if all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind' (1947, 16). This great aphorism is less witty than judicious, for it has the majestic repose we associate... | |
 | Stephen Vaughn - Business & Economics - 2006 - 360 pages
...for truth occur in a fair arena, Heffner believed. He liked Mill when he wrote, in On Liberty, that "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."77 During the McCarthy era, Heffner found Democracy in America pertinent. Tocqueville's warning... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 pages
...America's pending demise and act in such a way as to truly make a difference." — Tom Ambrose "If mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one...power, would be justified in silencing mankind."— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 2005 - 190 pages
...instrumental argument. Indeed, Mill himself does not have the instrumental argument in mind when he declares, "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and...one person, than he, if he had the power, would be satisfied in silencing mankind." So the instrumental argument is only part, and not the most important... | |
 | John Durham Peters - Philosophy - 2010 - 318 pages
...safety with which error of opinion maybe tolerated where reason is left free to combat it" (Jefferson); "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person, then he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind" ( JS Mill); "Sunlight is the... | |
 | Office for Intellectual Freedom - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 554 pages
...everyone else's right — to seek, receive, hold, and disseminate information from all points of view. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 302 pages
...for" (532). 33. Mill, "The Negro Question," 467. 34. Mill, "The Negro Question," 468. 35. He goes on: If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ("On Liberty," 2.1) 36. Like the phrase "spirit of the age," this view of society as a single definable... | |
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If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. 
