...are free; freedom is just the ability to act '4Note the contrast with John Stuart Mill: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end" (On Liberty, Introduction). from reasons; thus morality will make sense only if it is grounded on rationality....

...European nations have a mission to bring civilization to the ignorant and unenlightened: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...barbarians, provided the end be their improvement" (Mill 1859 and 1972:73). Arun Balasubramaniam (1990) argues that such an "ecumenical" approach to one's...

...less developed. Even that prophet of liberalism, John Stuart MilL could still argue that despotism was "a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement . . ."" In Mill also there began to emerge the notion that Western democratic institutions constitute...

...speak is intrinsic to modern European liberalism. John Stuart Mill once observed that "[d]espotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."9 In the postwar Japanese context, this liberal tradition was manifested in the convictions...

...others, must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury. . . . Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end. (OL, 15-16, emphasis added) 27. See Leviathan, p. 232 [90]. 28. This apparent tension within Hobbes's...

...improved by free and equal discussion." Anterior to that time, men may still be barbarians, and "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end." Mill's oftenquoted words have a less familiar implication on which their meaning depends: the internal...

...societies.163 As a citizen of the British Empire, he defends progressive, enlightened, benevolent despotism as "a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians,...the means justified by actually effecting that end." He might observe that that has turned out to be the case with Great Britain's colonial rule of India,...

...backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. . . . Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, (p. 11) Suggested here, as Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (1986) note, is a distinction between choosers...

...civilization between the people and the government." In On Liberty Mill stated briefly that "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end," thus exempting the application of the principle of liberty from any nation "anterior to the time when...

...qualified by realism, and which Mill thus models on the regimes of Akbar or Charlemagne: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end" (On Liberty, p. 73). Aristotle said as much regarding ends in his justification of slavery. Mill's...