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John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) |
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Sesquicentennial of
the Publication of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) |
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was the precocious child of the Philosophical Radical and Benthamite James Mill. Taught Greek, Latin, and political economy at an early age, he spent his youth in the company of the Philosophic Radicals, Benthamites and utilitarians who gathered around his father James. J.S. Mill went on to become a journalist, Member of Parliament, and philosopher and is regarded as one of the most significant English classical liberals of the 19th century. His book On Liberty (1859) is regarded as one of the key defences of individual liberty and classical liberal political thought of this period.
[For further reading see 19th Century Utilitarians and the Classical School of Economics]
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