The English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whom Gruber quotes, said, “Those only are happy who have ... is the necessary foundation of our liberty.” Locke himself was influenced by Aristotle and ...

The canonical liberal John Stuart Mill believed Christianity and ... was grounded in a Christian idea of freedom of conscience. After Mill, liberalism itself became a religion, based, as he put it in ...

Free speech is not an absolute liberty. It must be balanced against ... Here he criticises the 19th-century philosopher John Stuart Mill for patronisation and inconsistency — defending empire ...

Mill’s ‘Autobiography’ was considered too shocking to ... Harriet Taylor, the co-author of 'On Liberty' and other works. This is an extract from the episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our ...

In a book that is part history of ideas, part political essay, Camille Dejardin argues that John Stuart Mill’s oeuvre ... based on their “aptitude for liberty” (p. 286), which justifies, according to ...

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.

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 ...