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On Liberty
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On Liberty is John Stuart Mill's elegant defense of personal freedom in a world that loves to tell people what's good for them. His core idea is the harm principle: society may limit an individual's actions only to prevent harm to others, not to enforce morality, tradition, or majority opinion.
Mill argues that free speech-even offensive or unpopular speech-is vital, because silencing ideas robs us of truth, weakens our understanding of what we believe, and turns living beliefs into dead dogma. He extends this logic to lifestyle choices: diversity of thought, character, and ways of living is not a social problem but a social engine. Progress comes from experiments in living.
In short, Mill's book is a manifesto for individuality under law: protect people from harming one another, but otherwise let them think, speak, and live boldly. Freedom, for Mill, isn't chaos-it's the condition that allows truth, creativity, and human growth to exist at all.
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