On LibertyTicknor and Fields, 1863 - Всего страниц: 223 From the Introduction In his Autobiography, Mill predicts that the essay On Liberty is "likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written." He goes on to say that the essay is the expression of a "single truth: " "the importance, to man and society, of a large variety of types of character, and of giving full freedom to human nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting directions." In the essay itself, Mill defines his subject as "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual." He defends the absolute freedom of individuals to engage in conduct not harmful to others, and the near-absolute freedom to express and discuss opinions of all kinds. Mill's essay survives, as he had predicted, because his powerful message is still widely rejected by the powerful, and by those who continue to seek power over the lives of others. |
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... Socrates , be tween whom and the legal authorities and pub- lic opinion of his time , there took place a mem- orable collision . Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness , this man has been handed down to us by those ...
... Socrates , be tween whom and the legal authorities and pub- lic opinion of his time , there took place a mem- orable collision . Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness , this man has been handed down to us by those ...
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... Socrates , would not be an anti - climax : the event which took place on Calvary rather more than eighteen hundred years ago . The man who left on the memory of those who witnessed his life and conversa- tion , such an impression of his ...
... Socrates , would not be an anti - climax : the event which took place on Calvary rather more than eighteen hundred years ago . The man who left on the memory of those who witnessed his life and conversa- tion , such an impression of his ...
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... Socrates was put to death , but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven , and spread its illumination over the whole intellec- tual firmament . Christians were cast to the lions , but the Christian Church grew up a stately ...
... Socrates was put to death , but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven , and spread its illumination over the whole intellec- tual firmament . Christians were cast to the lions , but the Christian Church grew up a stately ...
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... Socratic dialectics , so magnificently ex- emplified in the dialogues of Plato , were a contrivance of this description . They were essentially a negative discussion of the great questions of philosophy and life , directed with ...
... Socratic dialectics , so magnificently ex- emplified in the dialogues of Plato , were a contrivance of this description . They were essentially a negative discussion of the great questions of philosophy and life , directed with ...
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