On Liberty
In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the...
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In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486421308 (0486421309)
ASIN: 486421309
Publish date: June 19th 2002
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
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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...