...(1859) I "The subject of this Essay," John Stuart Mill explains at the outset of his On Liberty, is "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of...legitimately exercised by society over the individual." An important branch of this subject is, he says, "the Liberty of Thought, from which it is impossible...

...the extent of social control over the individual. In John Stuart Mill's words, it seeks to determine 'the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual', or 'to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control'.45 This raises...

...without interference from other people or government. "The struggle between Liberty and Authority" and "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual" (Liberty, 5) constitute the central theme of his book. Particularly by focusing on conscience, thought,...

...defines social liberty in the sense of (negative) freedom of individuals from social coercion, viz. the "nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual." This definition seems more suggestive of what he calls public liberty than of social freedom understood...

...some forms of character flagrantly clashes with his argument in On Liberty that there are limits to "the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual" (CW XVIII 217). His Liberty Principle expresses the boundaries of society's legitimate use of compulsion...

...remain for democracy in the 21bl century? JOHN STUART MILL ON LIBERTY CHAPTER I Introduction [1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty...social liberty: the nature and limits of the power that can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. This is a question seldom stated...