On Liberty [electronic resource]
John Stuart Mill2003
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'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this
'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated.
While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to
Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organized the idea
into a philosophy, and put it into the form in which it is generally known
today.
The editor of this essay, Gertrude Himmelfarb records responses to Mill's books
and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority'. Dr Himmelfarb
concludes that the same inconsistencies which underlie On Liberty continue to
complicate the moral and political stance of liberals today.
Main title:
On Liberty [electronic resource] / John Stuart Mill
Author:
John Stuart Mill, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2003
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (192 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141907765
Language:
English
BRN:
437171
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