l is to prevent harm to others. This is true utility û the rights of the individual are to be protected, but the individual in his or her pursuit of happiness must not infringe upon the rights of others. As Mill (1960) maintains in On Liberty, ôThe opinion of a similar majority, imposed as a law on the minority, of questions regarding self-conduct, is quite as likely to be wrong as right...many...consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste forö (103).
Mill believed only such a system of limited government and personal freedom could evolve societies in which individuals were able to achieve their highest level of development. He also felt such a government and society would promote intellectual tolerance. In his support of womenÆs suffrage, MillÆs views for all individuals and his belief that his kind of society and role for government as expressed in On Liberty would lead to enhanced developed for all are applied to women. In On the Subjection of Women, Mill argues that oppression against
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