...— preparing the ground. The essay starts very quietly, with an unexciting negative statement: 'The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty...can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.'"1 This academic, undramatic statement begins the establishment of Mill's ethos as the...

...Liberty 1ntroductory (Chapter l, paras 1-16) Stages of liberty (L1,5) Mill introduces his subject as 'the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual' (1.1, p. 217). That subject, though rarely treated in philosophical terms, 'is so far from being new',...

...cultivate in its citizens the requisite virtues. Virtue and Liberty Mill's subject in On Liberty (1859) is "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual." The time was ripe, Mill believed, to reconsider this subject, because the "struggle between Liberty...

...also evident in JS Mill's classic text On Liberty (1859). Mill's avowed aim in this text is to explore 'the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual' in the context of the social 'struggle between liberty and authority' (1859: 59). There is, for Mill,...

...present Essay, Mr. Mill undertakes to discuss this question, or, as he states it in its broadest terms, "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society on the individual." The value of such an attempt is not to be measured simply by the conclusions arrived...

...which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. INTRODUCTORY THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty...by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical...

...better, but kill him if thou Canst." Dirty Minds, Dirty Bodies, Clean Speech Catharine R. Stimpson . . . Civil, or social, liberty: the nature and limits of...by society over the individual. A question seldom stated and hardly ever discussed in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies...

...]. S. Mill demarcates political individualism based on "Liberty of the will" and his chief subject, "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of...legitimately exercised by society over the individual" (1963-91, 18:217). In the same year Samuel Smiles praised the "energetic individualism which produces...

...an extremely important problem of the modern state in the 19th as well as the 20th century, namely "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of...can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual."25 In his age of increased significance of individuals, of mass populations, and growing...

...the contextualism of Mill's arguments in On Liberty. The essav begins bv announcing its subject as "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...exercised by society over the individuaL" a question that Mill takes to be as old as soeieu itself but which. he says. now "presents itself under new conditions....