Abstract: In a letter to his wife, Harriet, of January 15, 1855, Mill discussed the urgency of writing an essay on liberty. He claims that “opinion tends to encroach more and more on liberty, and almost all projects of social reformers are really liberticide – Comte, particularly so.” On Liberty was published in 1859, the year after Harriet's death, and it carried a lavish dedication to her. Mill believed that the essay was “likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written (with the possible exception of the Logic).” On Liberty has not only survived, but it has also been the center of much discussion, most of it rather hostile. It has done so precisely because the tendency towards liberticide, to which Mill had alluded, remains a constant threat to individual liberty, as Mill conceived and cherished it.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-12-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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