[PDF] On Liberty by John Stuart Mill - Free Ebook - Project Gutenberg

What are some of the best books about liberty?

BIBLIOGRAPHY 225 Berger, F. (1984) Happiness, Justice and Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Berkeley, University of California Press). Berlin, I. (1969) Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford, Oxford University Press). —— (1981) ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’ (1972), in his Against the Current,

What is the best guidebook to mill's on Liberty?

‘Jonathan Riley’s GuideBook to Mill’s On Liberty can be recommended without reservation both to beginning students and to professional philosophers. To the former he offers a thorough and coherent commentary on the text written in a straightforward and accessible style.

Is on liberty hard to read?

On Liberty has a reputation for being a difficult text to read. Mill is not a clear writer: he tends to expound arguments in sentences that sometimes run to a page or more before realizing that he could have said it all in a couple of dozen words. It has been no easy task to pick out those prize dozens.

Is individual liberty included in the doctrine of free trade?

As the principle of individual liberty is not involved in the doctrine of free trade, so neither is it in most of the questions which arise respecting the limits of that doctrine, as for example what amount of public control is admissible for the prevention of fraud by adulteration, or to protect the safety of work people.