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Manipulation, Liberalism and Paternalism: A Reply to Morriss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Extract

In his Comment on my article Peter Morriss raises several interesting points, but in this reply I shall try to show that the objections he makes to my analysis are not convincing. I consider first the more general arguments grouped under my ‘second error’. This permits consideration of the ‘first error’ to be placed in the context of anti-paternalist liberal arguments.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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References

1 Ware, Alan, ‘The Concept of Manipulation: Its Relation to Democracy and Power’, British Journal of Political Science, XI (1981), 163–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Mill, John Stuart, On Liberty, Everyman edn (London: Dent, 1910), pp. 151–2.Google Scholar

3 As I argue shortly, the liberal would also require intervention if the desire to drink the sulphuric acid had been acquired as a result of the use of force against the person.