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'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organized the idea into a philosophy, and put it into the form in which it is generally known today. The editor of this essay, Gertrude Himmelfarb records responses to Mill's books and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority'. Dr Himmelfarb concludes that the same inconsistencies which underlie On Liberty continue to complicate the moral and political stance of liberals today.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140432077
eBay Product ID (ePID)89077825
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn Liberty
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy
Publication Year1982
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
Topic AreaCivil Service
EditorGertrude Himmelfarb
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom