Write 5 double spaced 12pt tPHIyped pages. Brief Intro, clearly stating Thesis you will arguing for : include specific citations and quotations from the relevant author; and respond to the best criticism you can think of, of the Thesis you argue for.
II: Kant and Mill on responsibility for others
John Stuart Mill, as a utilitarian, accepts the
“Greatest Happiness Principle,” according to which we should strive in our acts to maximize the happiness of all, including ourselves, At the same time, in Ch. IV of On Liberty, criticizes the theory of “social rights” put forward by leaders of the temperance movement. According to that theory, when the acts of others (e.g., by drinking) create disorder, stimulate inequality, and reduce our ability to depend on others, we may legislate prohibitions on their conduct. Of that theory, Mil I says,
A theory of “social rights,” the like of which probably never before found its way into distinct language-being nothing short of this-that it is the absolute social right of every individual, that every other individual shall act in every respect exactly as he ought; that whosoever fails thereof in the smallest particular, violates my social right, and
