On Liberty'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. |
Contents
Introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb | |
Of theLiberty of Thought and Discussion | ii |
OfIndividuality as One of the Elements of WellBeing | ii |
Of theLimits tothe Authority of Society over the Individual | iv |
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