On Liberty-Value of Liberty
On Liberty is a work by John Stuart Mill, which is focused on proving that liberty is valuable to the individual, and society as a whole. By granting certain individual rights and freedoms, it would ensure citizens the opportunity to fully maximize their own self-development. This self-development would also have wide ranging social benefits. Although his supposition introduces many interesting ideas they are only theoretical they could not be applied in a practical ideology. He does not attempt to surrect any working model of what he believes the political structure of a society should be, if the society were to achieve the theoretical ideals, goals, and values, he sets forth in ‘On Liberty’. Mill proposed that liberty provided a medium between anarchy and autocracy. The medium (liberty) would ensure people freedoms that they could not recognize at either extreme of the political spectrum. Mill wanted all citizens in society to be granted: freedom of opinion, freedom to plan one’s own life, and the freedom to associate with whomever one chose. If a person is afforded all of these rights then they have essentially been contracted the freedom to be an individual. Individuality, as seen by Mill, is the only way to allow
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Approximate Word count = 1676
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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