On Liberty: The Limits of the Power of Society Over the Individual
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Mill sets the limit: society may coerce a man only to prevent harm to others, and everything else — his opinions, his tastes, the way he chooses to live — is his own. He wrote it with his wife Harriet Taylor and published it in 1859, the year after her death, calling it as much hers as his. The chapter on why a silenced opinion is a loss even when it is wrong has never been answered better. Fifty-eight plates of Victorian portraits and scenes, among them George Frederic Watts and William Powell Frith, picture the very society whose claims on the individual Mill set out to limit.
Mill sets the limit: society may coerce a man only to prevent harm to others, and everything else — his opinions, his tastes, the way he chooses to live — is his own. He wrote it with his wife Harriet Taylor and published it in 1859, the year after her death, calling it as much hers as his. The c...
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John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was educated by his father to be an instrument of reform: Greek at three, logic at twelve, a breakdown at twenty. He worked thirty-five years for the East India Company, sat in parliament, moved the first amendment to give women the vote, and wrote the essay on liberty that the argument still starts from.
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was educated by his father to be an instrument of reform: Greek at three, logic at twelve, a breakdown at twenty. He worked thirty-five years for the East India Company, sat in parliament, moved the first amendment to give women the vote, and wrote the essay on libert...
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