On liberty
John Stuart Mill
In the tract on Liberty, Mill is advocating the rights of the individual as against Society at the very opening of an era that was rapidly coming to the conclusion that the individual had no absolute rights against Society. The eighteenth century view is that individuals existed first, each with their own special claims and responsibilities: that they deliberately formed a Social State, either by a contract or otherwise, and that then finally they limited their own action out of regard for the interests of the social organism thus arbitrarily produced. This is hardly the view of the nineteenth century. It is possible that logically the individual is prior to the State; historically and in the order of Nature, the State is prior to the individual. In other words, such rights as every single personality possesses in a modern world do not belong to him by an original ordinance of Nature, but are slowly acquired in the growth and development of the social state.
Duration - 5h 25m.
Author - John Stuart Mill.
Narrator - Graham Dunlop.
Published Date - Thursday, 25 January 2024.
Copyright - © 1859 John Stuart Mill ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
In the tract on Liberty, Mill is advocating the rights of the individual as against Society at the very opening of an era that was rapidly coming to the conclusion that the individual had no absolute rights against Society. The eighteenth century view is that individuals existed first, each with their own special claims and responsibilities: that they deliberately formed a Social State, either by a contract or otherwise, and that then finally they limited their own action out of regard for the interests of the social organism thus arbitrarily produced. This is hardly the view of the nineteenth century. It is possible that logically the individual is prior to the State; historically and in the order of Nature, the State is prior to the individual. In other words, such rights as every single personality possesses in a modern world do not belong to him by an original ordinance of Nature, but are slowly acquired in the growth and development of the social state. Duration - 5h 25m. Author - John Stuart Mill. Narrator - Graham Dunlop. Published Date - Thursday, 25 January 2024. Copyright - © 1859 John Stuart Mill ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:12
1. Author's Dedication
Duration:00:01:04
2. Introduction, By Prof A. Seth Pringle-Pattison 03
Duration:00:30:49
3. Chapter I Introductory
Duration:00:34:57
Onlibert4. Chapter II Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussiony 05
Duration:01:41:22
5. Chapter III Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
Duration:00:50:18
6. Chapter IV Of the Limits to the Authority of Society Over the Individual
Duration:00:49:09
7. Chapter V Applications
Duration:00:57:18
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:16