tizens, or from his conscience. For Mill, the individual also helps see that justice is done through the action of his or her conscience. Mill says that the individual is, after all, the person most interested in his or her own welfare. Mill admits that many people refuse to recognize the distinction between that part of a person's life that concerns only himself and that part which concerns society. They state that the conduct of one member of society clearly affects the conduct of others and that no one is entirely isolated. Mill agrees that the mischief a person does to himself can affect others, and he finds that it is right to bring to bear moral disapprobation, Whenever there is a definite damage, the case moves out of the province of liberty and into that of morality or law. With reference to that which is merely contingent, however, society can afford to bear the inconvenience.
Mill in his work On Liberty proposed a simple principle for determining whether society has a right to limit individual freedom, a principle based on utilitarian concep
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