num_pages: 146
description: No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. -John Stuart Mill, in On Liberty Often mentioned in the same breath with the Communist Manifesto, On Liberty-perhaps the greatest work from British political philosopher John Stuart Mill-is one of the most profound and most hotly debated works of the 19th century. Is it a classic plea for human freedom and intellectual development... or is it factually wrong and morally offensive?
language: English
title: On Liberty
titlecomplete: On Liberty (Cosimo Classics Philosophy)
genres: Political Science, Essays, Law, Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Classics, Nonfiction, History, 19th Century
ratings_count: 36952
publisher: Cosimo Classics