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On Liberty (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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Short Description for On Liberty'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. This title includes an essay that dedicated to this 'one very simple principle'. It records responses to the author's books and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority'.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 27 May 1982
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Human Rights | Civil Rights & Citizenship | Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780140432077 ISBN 10: 0140432078
- Sales rank: 55,950
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Full description for On Liberty
'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.
