As such, I thought I would go back and read On Liberty and see how the ideas there in would compare to today's. In "Chapter One" (discussion on chapters two through five to come later ...

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency ...

If you are this kind of liberal, you have been influenced by the 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, who was principally responsible for elucidating the ideas of classical liberalism.

Amid the sooty London fog of the mid 1800s, John Stuart Mill was a rare feminist. His most famous work, “On Liberty”, championed “giving full freedom to human nature”, yet it was his essay ...

it is worth revisiting the 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill’s seminal work, On Liberty. Mill’s work is the bedrock of what we refer to today as libertarianism. Mill believed that true ...

In October of 1858, John Stuart Mill and his wife ... The book was called On Liberty. It is one of the founding documents of our liberal world order. Individuals, the Mills argued, have the ...

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