On Liberty

The extract that we study is from the introduction of the book On Liberty, building major political maturity of the British philosopher John Stuart Mill, published in 1859. This test of political philosophy was written in reaction to the idea that "people do not need to limit their power over themselves" [1] because Mill believes that there is confusion in the illusory ' expression of the democratic ideal of "government of, by the people and for the people" where the people used to different places is not the same "common people" in question: it is not government for each itself ...