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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 affect argument asserted asso believe better Calvinistic cerns character Christian ciety compelled concerns conduct considerable considered contrary creed custom defending desire despotism discussion dition doctrine duct duty enforced eral error ethics evil example exer exercise exist experience faculties feelings freedom grounds heretics human important impulses individual infallibility intel intellect interests interference ious John Knox judgment justify liberty limit mankind Marcus Aurelius means ment mental mind mode moral nature never object offence opin opinion Parsees party penalties persecution persons political Poor Law Board practical prevent principle profess punishment purposes question reason regard religion religious render require restraint rulers rules self-regarding sentiments side social social rights social stigma society Socrates supposed things thought tion tivation toleration trines true truth tween Tyrannicide unless vidual whole Wilhelm von Humboldt wrong Popular passagesPage 23 - ... the only purpose for which power can be 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 so would be wise or even right. Page 35 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Page 28 - Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits ; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character ; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow : without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though. they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong. Page 222 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes— will find... Page 13 - ... desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power. The limitation, therefore, of the power of government over individuals loses none of its importance when the holders of power are regularly accountable to the community, that is, to the strongest party therein. Page 41 - ... the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument; but facts and arguments, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story... Page 27 - But there is a sphere of action in which society, as distinguished from the individual, has, if any, only an indirect interest; comprehending all that portion of a person's life and conduct which affects only himself, or, if it also affects others, only with their free, voluntary, and undeceived consent and participation. Page 121 - In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. Page 102 - Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds. Page 22 - The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the 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. 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 Bibliographic information
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