MILL: Representative Government [Ch. 1-6]

Preface
• “A better doctrine must be possible; not a mere compromise, by splitting the difference between the two, but something wider than either, which, in virtue of its superior comprehensiveness, might be adopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing anything which he really feels to be valuable in his own creed.”

MILL: On Liberty [Chapters III-V]

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

CHAPTER III: Of Individuality as one of the Elements of Well-Being

• Both the expression of opinions and actions ought to be limited when they cause harm to others [yelling fire in a theater]

MILL: On Liberty [Chapters I-II]

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

CHAPTER I: Introductory

• The subject of this essay is not Free Will, but rather social and civil freedom; specifically, the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.