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Rights to Liberty in Purely Private Matters

Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Jonathan Riley
Jonathan Riley
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Tulane University
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John Stuart Mill provides a classic defense of individual and group rights to liberty with respect to purely private or self-regarding matters:

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself … directly, and in the first instance, … his independence is, of right, absolute.… From this liberty of each individual, follows the liberty, within the same limits, of combination among individuals; freedom to unite, for any purpose not involving harm to others: the persons combining being supposed to be of full age, and not forced or deceived. (1859, pp. 224–26)

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , October 1989 , pp. 121 - 166
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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