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Comment in 150 words: “All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.” (J. S’. Mill)

  • UPSC 2014
  • 10 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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John Locke grounded liberalism in life, liberty and property. John Stuart Mill gave it its classic defence of free expression in chapter II of On Liberty (1859), "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion". The sentence states his central move. The case for free speech is epistemic, resting on human fallibility rather than on a…

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