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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... reasons should be given , either by one person to others , or by each to himself . Peo- ple are accustomed to believe ... reason , but the only one he generally has for any of his notions of mo- rality , taste , or propriety , which are ...
... reasons should be given , either by one person to others , or by each to himself . Peo- ple are accustomed to believe ... reason , but the only one he generally has for any of his notions of mo- rality , taste , or propriety , which are ...
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... reason — at other times their prejudices or supersti- tions : often their social affections , not seldom their antisocial ones , their envy or jealousy , their arrogance or contemptuousness : but most commonly , their desires or fears ...
... reason — at other times their prejudices or supersti- tions : often their social affections , not seldom their antisocial ones , their envy or jealousy , their arrogance or contemptuousness : but most commonly , their desires or fears ...
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... reason , and on their own account , than as a consequence of the sympathies and antipathies which grew out of them and sympathies and antipathies which had little or nothing to do with the interests of society , have made themselves ...
... reason , and on their own account , than as a consequence of the sympathies and antipathies which grew out of them and sympathies and antipathies which had little or nothing to do with the interests of society , have made themselves ...
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... reasons for remonstrating with him , or reasoning with him , or persuading him , or entreating him , but not for compelling him , visiting him with any evil , in case he do other- wise . To justify that , the conduct from which it is ...
... reasons for remonstrating with him , or reasoning with him , or persuading him , or entreating him , but not for compelling him , visiting him with any evil , in case he do other- wise . To justify that , the conduct from which it is ...
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... reason , we may leave out of con- sideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage . The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so great , that there is seldom ...
... reason , we may leave out of con- sideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage . The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so great , that there is seldom ...
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