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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ... or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...or the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...university . ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER TY TY TY TY TY By JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: I... ... opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimat... ... of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defence against his beak and claws. The aim, there fore, of patriots, wa... ... mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formi dable than many kinds of political oppression,... ... on which they were themselves heretical, rather than make com mon cause in defence of freedom, with heretics gen erally. The only case in which the...

... of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named 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. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the...

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