...also evident in JS Mill's classic text On Liberty (1859). Mill's avowed aim in this text is to explore 'the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual' in the context of the social 'struggle between liberty and authority' (1859: 59). There is, for Mill,...

...present Essay, Mr. Mill undertakes to discuss this question, or, as he states it in its broadest terms, "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society on the individual." The value of such an attempt is not to be measured simply by the conclusions arrived...

...]. S. Mill demarcates political individualism based on "Liberty of the will" and his chief subject, "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of...legitimately exercised by society over the individual" (1963-91, 18:217). In the same year Samuel Smiles praised the "energetic individualism which produces...

...an extremely important problem of the modern state in the 19th as well as the 20th century, namely "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of...can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual."25 In his age of increased significance of individuals, of mass populations, and growing...

...the contextualism of Mill's arguments in On Liberty. The essav begins bv announcing its subject as "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...exercised by society over the individuaL" a question that Mill takes to be as old as soeieu itself but which. he says. now "presents itself under new conditions....

...Press, 1960. Cf. Mill JS. On Liberty (1859). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974. Mill used the term "civil or social liberty: the nature and limits of...legitimately exercised by society over the individual." Mill JS. oe, p. 59. — ' According to Berlin, the questions "who is master" and "over what area am...

...philosophical arguments are as well known as John Stuart Mill's essay on social liberty, in which Mill explores "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual." John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 5 (Stefan Collini ed.) (New York: Cambridge University Press 1989 [orig....

...example, in Mill, who begins On Liberty with the declaration that the subject of the essay will be "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual."32 Yet the very way Mill phrases this statement is representative of the narrow conception...

...discrete philosophical problems. John Stuart Mill opens his essay On Liberty with the announcement that The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty...legitimately exercised by society over the individuaL (Mill 1910: 651 Divide and rule is probably the most distinctive philosophical strategy, but we should...

...rules of conduct" introduced by "society," as he declares his intention to analyze the doctrine of Social Liberty, "the nature and limits of the power...legitimately exercised by society over the individual" (p. 5). He is not prepared to limit the possibility of tyrannical imposition to governments alone,...