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On Liberty

On Liberty: An Introduction

Helen McCabe introduces John Stuart Mill on his own free will.

John Stuart Mill himself believed On Liberty would be one of the works for which he was best remembered. It has certainly proved the most influential. Published in 1859, it caused an outcry, and interest in it has not died. From the rise of totalitarianism in the early twentieth century, through the debates about censorship and privacy in the 1960s, right up to contemporary discussions about free speech and surveillance, events continue to bring the book back into the limelight as answers are sought from its pages.

Mill the Man

Mill was born in 1806, a child both of James Mill and of the Utilitarian project.

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