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On Liberty Paperback - 1982
by John Stuart Mill
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- Title On Liberty
- Author John Stuart Mill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 186
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date July 29, 1982
- Bookseller's Inventory # 202308261810
- ISBN 9780140432077 / 0140432078
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.12 x 0.41 in (19.71 x 13.00 x 1.04 cm)
- Reading level 1440
- Library of Congress subjects Liberty
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.44
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Summary
At the time it was published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty was a radical and controversial work; it argued for the right of individuals to possess freedom from the state in moral and economic matters. Mill declares that "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign", contrasting this with the "tyranny of the majority." He states that an individual can do anything they like as long as it doesn't harm another - the well-known "harm principle". On Liberty had a huge impact and has remained a relevant philosophical and political text today.
First line
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.