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Debate: Liberty and Equality

John Stuart Mill has a controversial place in the classical liberal tradition. He shocked many conservatives with his support for women’s suffrage in The Subjection of Women (1869) and seemed to justify considerable state intervention in the economy in his Principles of Political Economy (1848). One of his most influential books, On Liberty (1859), prompted a critique by Stephens who argued that Mill’s idea of liberty and equality undermined the older liberal notions of "ordered liberty" and "equality under law".

3 Titles in this Group:

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author: John Stuart Mill On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (1879 ed.) 1859
author: John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women (1878 ed.) 1869
author: James Fitzjames Stephen, editor: Stuart D. Warner Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (LF ed.) 1874