Discussion
The statement 'Over himself, Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign' is associated with :
Answer: C
The statement is from John Stuart Mill.
It closes the statement of the harm principle in the first chapter of On Liberty (1859): the only purpose for which power may rightly be exercised over anyone against his will is to prevent harm to others, and in what concerns only himself, 'over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'.
Thomas Hobbes placed sovereignty in an absolute ruler, not in the individual. Michael Oakeshott (spelt 'Machel' in the paper) was a conservative philosopher, and Benjamin Disraeli a Conservative prime minister of Britain.
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