In debates over abortion, homosexual conduct, euthanasia, prostitution, drugs, those who call themselves liberals often mount the same basic argument; a socially or morally permissive stance is necessitated towards such practices because people have a right to choose do what ever they like with their own bodies. As John Stuart Mill put it in his [...]
Entries Tagged as 'John Stuart Mill'
Contra Mundum: Consenting Adults and Harm
August 6th, 2011 85 Comments
Tags: Consenting Adults · Contra Mundum · Harm Principle · Investigate Magazine · Irving Kristol · Jan Arneson · Joel Feinberg · John Stuart Mill
Is Abortion Liberal? Part 1
October 26th, 2008 11 Comments
Laws permitting abortion on demand are often deemed to be liberal. Further, political liberals are frequently ardent defenders of such laws. I think these conclusions are mistaken. In a series of two posts I will provide some reasons why. Most contemporary liberals advocate a form of the harm principle, famously articulated by Mill in On [...]
Tags: Abortion · Classical Liberalism · Feticide · John Stuart Mill · Liberalism · Libertarianism · Murray Rothbard · Rodney Hide
Against Liberal Morality
August 10th, 2007 No Comments
In debates over abortion, homosexual conduct, euthanasia, prostitution, drugs. Those who call themselves liberals often mount the same basic argument. A socially or morally permissive stance is necessitated towards such practices because people have a right to choose do what ever they like with their bodies. As Mill put it, The only part of the [...]
Tags: Consenting Adults · Ethics · Joel Feinberg · John Stuart Mill · Libertarianism · Liberty
