Book1859
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Society may limit an individual's actions only to prevent harm to others, never merely to enforce a majority's taste or morality.
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Liberty
A topic within Political Theory, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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Lecture1819
The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns
Benjamin Constant
Ancient liberty meant sharing directly in collective power at the cost of near-total submission to the group, while modern liberty means private independence guaranteed by the state; mistaking one for the other, as revolutionary France did, produces new tyranny.
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