On Liberty By John Mill
John Mill is a British philosopher, has been called the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century (John Mill Biography). John Mill published his on liberty book in 1859, In "On Liberty" book by John Mill he discussed and he debated the concept of personal liberty, and the limitation of the discussion (On Liberty book, pg iii,iv, and the cover page). In this book John Mills discussed very important points which are The Struggle between Liberty and Authority, Tyranny of the Majority, Self-Regarding Actions and Autonomy, The Veracity of Public Opinion, Religion and Liberty, and Coercion. Those points are related to the debate video which we saw in class "The Agenda: Mark Steyn" which I will explain each one of them and
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If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by it's collision with error" (On Liberty: chapter 2, pg 14). Mill asserts that The government is much more dangerous when they follow on unfaithful and uncertain public opinions. However, public opinion is the most popular passion of humanity, but forming this opinion requires the silencing of most of the voices because the minority opinions is very hurtful even if their doesn't know their opinions are wrong or right. If a silenced opinion is right, that means that the people in public still doesn't know the truth. Well as if the minority opinion is wrong, it leads to "the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth."(On Liberty book: chapter 2, pg 14). Mill also said that "the usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion: as disputable, as open to discussion and requiring discussion as much, as the opinion itself.....there can be no fair discussion of the question of usefulness, when an argument so vital may be …show more content…
Firstly Mark Steyn used the Coercion point which is harming the Muslim people by the words he said in his book as he said that Islam and muslim people are terrorists because their ethnic ties with their home countries were severed. Their young feel rejected by their host countries, deprived of opportunities by the prevalence of employment discrimination (Review of America Alone by Mark Steyn). He also harm them when he said that Islam is weak and unsure religion, but actually that is not true because Islam religion is strong from so many years and muslim people are everywhere around the world, they are sepreding there religion around the whole world, so Mark used the Religion and Liberty point and he also used the point of the struggle between liberty and authority. As in the debate we watched in class he was so agresive and nervous when he came to the point which is he facing some of the muslim people whose get harmed by his words, even thou he wasn’t sure about what he wrote in his book about Islam and he only wrote the book from only his point of view, which is wrong. Mills argued that in his on liberty book as he said that we should not judge anyone about their religion and we he also put the limitation of discussion because people not harm each
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by it's collision with error" (On Liberty: chapter 2, pg 14). Mill asserts that The government is much more dangerous when they follow on unfaithful and uncertain public opinions. However, public opinion is the most popular passion of humanity, but forming this opinion requires the silencing of most of the voices because the minority opinions is very hurtful even if their doesn't know their opinions are wrong or right. If a silenced opinion is right, that means that the people in public still doesn't know the truth. Well as if the minority opinion is wrong, it leads to "the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth."(On Liberty book: chapter 2, pg 14). Mill also said that "the usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion: as disputable, as open to discussion and requiring discussion as much, as the opinion itself.....there can be no fair discussion of the question of usefulness, when an argument so vital may be …show more content…
Firstly Mark Steyn used the Coercion point which is harming the Muslim people by the words he said in his book as he said that Islam and muslim people are terrorists because their ethnic ties with their home countries were severed. Their young feel rejected by their host countries, deprived of opportunities by the prevalence of employment discrimination (Review of America Alone by Mark Steyn). He also harm them when he said that Islam is weak and unsure religion, but actually that is not true because Islam religion is strong from so many years and muslim people are everywhere around the world, they are sepreding there religion around the whole world, so Mark used the Religion and Liberty point and he also used the point of the struggle between liberty and authority. As in the debate we watched in class he was so agresive and nervous when he came to the point which is he facing some of the muslim people whose get harmed by his words, even thou he wasn’t sure about what he wrote in his book about Islam and he only wrote the book from only his point of view, which is wrong. Mills argued that in his on liberty book as he said that we should not judge anyone about their religion and we he also put the limitation of discussion because people not harm each