John Stuart Mill's On Liberty

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist, and manager, was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century.

His outlooks are of extending significance, and are usually recognized to be amidst the deepest and absolutely the most effective defenses of empiricism and of a liberal political outlook of humanity and culture. The overall aim of his philosophy is to evolve an affirmative outlook of the cosmos and the location of humans in it, one which contributes to the advancement of human information, one-by-one flexibility and human well-being. His outlooks are not solely original, ...