The classic defense of individual freedom against the tyranny of the majority.
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The book that drew the line between you and the state — and made that line matter. John Stuart Mill's On Liberty remains the defining argument for individual freedom.
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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 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…
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