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Review: On Liberty (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)User Review - Blue Caeruleus - GoodreadsThis should be read and discussed in schools everywhere; it has to be one of the most important writings on the subject of freedom ever produced. Read full review Review: On LibertyUser Review - Steve - GoodreadsJohn Stuart Mill was ahead of his time. In 1859, he published “On Liberty,” which is a declaration for freedom, tolerance, and individuality. It is a short and very accessible work that contains the ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesadmit argument asserted authority believe better cation cause cerns character Christian concerns conduct considerable contrary cracy creed custom defend deny desire despotism discussion doctrine duty effect enforce error ethics evil example exercise exist experience faculties feelings freedom grounds heretics human immoral impulses individual infallibility intellect interest interference John Knox judgment justify legitimate liberty limit mankind Marcus Aurelius means ment mental mind mode moral nations nature necessary neral never nion object offence Parsees party penalties persecution persons political Poor Law Board practical present principle profess punishment question quire racter reason received opinion recognised religion religious require restraint rulers rules sary self-regarding sentiments side siderable sion social social rights social stigma society Sorie specting strong supposed tain things thought tion toleration tricity true truth unless vidual whole Wilhelm von Humboldt wrong Popular passagesPage 10 - dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ; It is Page 6 - the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end. Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to Page 6 - rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do Page 8 - it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. Page 6 - of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so great, that there is seldom any choice of means for overcoming them ; and a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted Page 3 - since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough : there needs protection also against the Page 6 - way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties', or' the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually Page 12 - produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The ¡¡whole strength and value, then, of 'human judgment, depending on the :;one property, that it can be set right ¡¡when it is wrong, reliance can be Page 6 - as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury. For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward Page 41 - The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement. The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it References to this bookFrom Google ScholarNonconsequentialist decisionsJonathan Baron Participation and Development: Perspectives from the Comprehensive ...Joseph E Stiglitz - 2002 - Review of Development Economics Individual Rights RevisitedWulf Gaertner, Prasanta K Pattanaik, Kotaro Suzumura - 1992 - Economica Social Capital and Local Governance: Exploring the Institutional ...Vivien Lowndes, David Wilson - 2001 - Political Studies References from web pagesOn Liberty, by John Stuart Mill Modern History Sourcebook: John Stuart Mill: On Liberty John Stuart Mill: On Liberty Mill, On Liberty: Library of Economics and Liberty On Liberty On Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control John Stuart Mill political philosopher political philosophy works ... JSTOR: Mill on Liberty: A Defense Bibliographic information
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