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One person’s freedom: a cornerstone of philosophy, debated still.
On Liberty
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192 pages
- Release Date
26 May 1982
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Summary
The Sovereignty of Self: Exploring Mill’s 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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140432077 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140432078 |
| Author: | John Stuart Mill, Gertrude Himmelfarb |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 May 1982 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
About The Author
John Stuart Mill
Gertrude Himmelfarb is Professor of History at the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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