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In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent scholarship, he shows.In J.C. Reese’s essay, A Re-reading of Mill on Liberty, he distinguishes other-regarding actions to affect other people’s interests in their moral rights, that of liberty and security. ( 21 ) Therefore, the “harm to others” implied in On Liberty refers to the harm of an individual’s moral interests, resulting in injustice towards the individual.Mill justifies the value of liberty through a Utilitarian approach. His essay tries to show the positive effects of liberty on all people and on society as a whole. In particular, Mill links liberty to the ability to progress and to avoid social stagnation. Liberty of opinion is valuable for two main reasons.
On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays An 1844 fashion plate depicting clothing for men and women. (Wikimedia Commons) Mill was writing in the Victorian age, in which formality and highly restrictive moral convention carried the day. The 19th Century marked the heyday of the British Empire.Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place.
In the essay, Liberty, written by John Stuart Mill, Mill states that individualism is the theory that “(o)ver himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign” (7). Before coming to this conclusion, Mill first explains that individualism and liberty were defined in ways far different from definitions now and that true individualism did not exist until later in history.
