On Liberty (Classics)
Mill's 1859 essay defines liberty as an absolute individual right, and defends freedom of speech as a condition of progress.
Mill's 1859 essay defines liberty as an absolute individual right, and defends freedom of speech as a condition of progress.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780915144433 (0915144433)
ASIN: 915144433
Publish date: April 1st 1978
Publisher: Hackett Publ. Co Inc
Pages no: 113
Edition language: English
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19th Century,
Political Science
Classical in every sense of the word , I haven`t actually read the whole text , Mill takes too much pages grasping your mind to give you one simple idea .
Near the beginning of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill states the over-arching idea of the book:...the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can b...