• On Liberty By John Stuart Mill

On Liberty By John Stuart Mill

From the Introduction In his Autobiography, Mill predicts that the essay On Liberty is 'likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written.' He goes on to say that the essay is the expression of a 'single truth: ' 'the importance, to man and society, of a large variety of types of character, and of giving full freedom to human nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting directions.' In the essay itself, Mill defines his subject as 'the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.' He defends the absolute freedom of individuals to engage in conduct not harmful to others, and the near-absolute freedom to express and discuss opinions of all kinds. Mill's essay survives, as he had predicted, because his powerful message is still widely rejected by the powerful, and by those who continue to seek power over the lives of others. John Stuart Mill, Classical economist, was born in 1806.

His father was the Ricardian economist, James Mill. Achtung fertig charlie torrent - the best software for your. John Stuart Mill's writings on economics and philosophy were prodigious. His 'Principles of Political Economy, With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy,' published in 1848, was the leading economics textbook of the English-speaking world during the second half of the 19th century. Some of Mill's other works include 'Considerations on Representative Government,' 'Auguste Comte and Positivism,' 'The Subjection of Women,' and 'Three Essays on Religion.'

John Mill died in 1873.

CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTORY.The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognised as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages; but in the stage of progress.