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On Liberty (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
by John Stuart Mill (Author), Gertrude Himmelfarb (Introduction) "THE subject of this essay is not the so-called 'liberty of the will', so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of philosophical necessity; but civil,..." (more)
Key Phrases: Marcus Aurelius, John Knox, Middle Ages (more...)

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Product Details

Paperback: 187 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; New edition (July 29, 1982)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140432078
ISBN-13: 978-0140432077
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces

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Key Phrases - CAPs: Marcus Aurelius, John Knox, Middle Ages, New England, New Testament (more)

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THE subject of this essay is not the so-called 'liberty of the will', so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of philosophical necessity; but civil, or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. Read the first page

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This book cites 100 books:

System of Logic by Johns Mill on 5 pages
Principles of Political Economy (Great Mind) by John Stuart Mill on 4 pages
The Collected Works, Vol. 2 by John Stuart Mill in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life) (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by John Henry Newman in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And Three Brief Essays by James Fitzjames Stephen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)

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100 books cite this book:

James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist by K. J. M. Smith on 15 pages
J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by John Stuart Mill on 15 pages
Models of Democracy by David Held on 10 pages
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda Dowling on 9 pages
The Ideal of a Rational Morality: Philosophical Compositions by Marcus G. Singer on 7 pages

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