On Liberty - John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

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Narrator: Gildart Jackson

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On Liberty (UNABRIDGED) by John Stuart Mill Narrated By Gildart Jackson, LENGTH: 4 hrs and 58 mins RELEASE DATE: 03-21-11 PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio, Publishers Summary, First published in 1859, John Stuart Mills On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mills work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Drawing upon the empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, On Liberty defends the representative democracy as the culmination of societys progression from lower to higher stages, even as it recognizes one of the unique dangers of this type of government - namely, the tyranny of the majority., Central to Mills ideology is the harm principle - the idea that individual liberties should only be curtailed when they harm or interfere with the ability of others to exer