On Liberty John Stuart Mill

On Liberty is probably Mill's best known book, and as such, may not need much introduction. I have, in any case, extensive notes on the text, and will start putting these up within the next months [19-Feb-2002], beginning with my notes on the argument for the freedom of ``tastes and pursuits''. [Paul Lyon]

A Note on the Text

I secured this text from the 'net, specifically from wiretap.spies.com. They scanned the text from Harvard Classics Volume 25, published in 1909 by P.F. Collier & Son. About this, they say:

This was scanned from the 1909 edition and mechanically checked against a commercial copy of the text from CDROM. Differences were corrected against the paper edition. The text itself is thus a highly accurate rendition. The footnotes were entered manually.

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, released September 1993.

The 1859 edition is the only edition of On Liberty.

Table of Contents

• Chapter I Introductory
• Chapter II Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
• Chapter III Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
• Chapter IVOf the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
• Chapter VApplications