On Liberty

On Liberty is a philosophical work of the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, which was first published in 1859. For the former Victorian readers, it was a radical work, called for the moral and economic freedom of individuals against the sovereign state.

An important point of the work is its principle of freedom: "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. " ( Engl.: "Over himself, over his own body and mind, an individual is sovereign. " ) Mill says that as opposed to the tyranny of the majority. " Tyranny of the majority ," he calls the unelected power of the majority, who can do through control of etiquette and morality terrible things. A second important point of the work is the Harm Principle (the principle of harm): Everyone can do whatever he wants as long as he does not harm anyone directly. All branches of liberalism and other political doctrines, see this as their rationale, but they contradict each other in what is damage and what is right.

On Liberty was an enormously influential work. The ideas presented were the basis of many political thoughts. The work is quite short and easily readable even by non-experts. It remained since its first release continuously in print. To date, a copy of the work is given to the President of the UK Liberal Democrats, formerly the Liberal Party, helped as a sign of succession of the party, set up the Mill.

Published Editions of On Liberty

  • On Liberty (ISBN 1-59986-973- X)
  • On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (ISBN 0-14-144147- X)

Online editions of On Liberty

  • HTML version
  • Online version
  • Audiobook

Secondary literature ( online text )

  • Mill On Liberty, by Chin Liew Ten, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980 ( the whole text will be hosted by the National University of Singapore).
  • Work of political philosophy
  • Liberalism
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( English )
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