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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 323.44 EAN: 9780024096906 Edition: First ISBN: 0024096903 Label: MacMillan Manufacturer: MacMillan Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: January 11, 1956 Publisher: MacMillan Studio: MacMillan Editorial Review: Product Description: In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - No wonder Nietzsche called Mill a "blockhead"...In the Introduction to "On Liberty," Currin Shields, an English egghead, bemoans the fact that Mill's most "famous" essay is "more talked about than read." I'm surprised it is even talked about, and I am very much NOT surprised that hardly anyone reads it. Mill takes about a hundred and twenty pages to say what could be (and was) summed up in an epigram: People should be free to do whatever they want, as long as it does not harm anyone else. Not only does Mill subject the ... Read More Rating:  - A Keen Analysis of Liberal ThoughtIn many ways, one is tempted to think that there is no such thing as liberalism alive in America today. It would do many well to read the work of the Englishman Mill in order to understand much of what is called both "liberalism" as well as "individual liberty." In addition, one of the growing issues of the contemporary political landscape in America is a polarization which is wholly unnecessary when analysis is applied the current plane of consideration. The reason for this conspicuous lack of ... Read More Rating:  - A classic of current relevanceA work every 21st Century conservative should read and understand. Rating: - AmazingI don't really like the fact that Mill wasn't religious- I don't believe you can have a just person who doesn't believe in a higher power, but the economics in On Liberty and the politics are amazing. It comes down to this: No one should be prevented from thinking or doing anything except that which harms others. In other words: government needs to get out of our bidness! Rating: - The great defender of individual libertyJohn Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of Parliament 1865-68 he served one term. Maiden speech was a disaster his second was great success. He was first MP to propose that women should be given the vote on equal footing with the men who could vote. He got 1/3 support, England gives franchise to women after U.S. He was a great Feminist, his essay "Subjection of Women" is written with great passion and prose. It was a brave position ... Read More |
