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Critically examine: “In the first place, it is mostly considered unjust to deprive anyone of his personal liberty, his property or any other thing which belongs to him by law…………………….”. (John Stuart Mill)

  • UPSC 1999
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence opens John Stuart Mill's catalogue of what people call unjust, in chapter V ("On the Connexion between Justice and Utility") of Utilitarianism (Fraser's Magazine, 1861; book, 1863). It equates justice with respecting legal rights. Mill reports it as common opinion and qualifies it at once: sound as a minimum of justice, inadequate as…

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