On Liberty (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: Gertrude Himmelfarb (Introduction)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: July 29, 1982
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780140432077
First sentence: THE subject of this essay is not the so-called 'liberty of the will', so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of philosophical necessity; but civil, or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.