On LibertyLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 - 223 páginas On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state. |
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... theories , as well as in persons , success discloses faults and in- firmities which failure might have concealed from observation . The notion , that the people have no need to limit their power over themselves , might seem axiomatic ...
... theories , as well as in persons , success discloses faults and in- firmities which failure might have concealed from observation . The notion , that the people have no need to limit their power over themselves , might seem axiomatic ...
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... theory ; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible , few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility , or admit the supposition that any opinion , of which they feel very certain , may be one of ...
... theory ; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible , few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility , or admit the supposition that any opinion , of which they feel very certain , may be one of ...
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... theory which maintains that truth may justi- fiably be persecuted because persecution cannot possibly do it any harm , cannot be charged with being intentionally hostile to the reception of new truths ; but we cannot commend the ...
... theory which maintains that truth may justi- fiably be persecuted because persecution cannot possibly do it any harm , cannot be charged with being intentionally hostile to the reception of new truths ; but we cannot commend the ...
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... theory , a deplorable error and misfortune , for which humanity should mourn in sackcloth and ashes , but the normal and justifiable state of things . The propounder of a new truth , according to this doctrine , should stand , as stood ...
... theory , a deplorable error and misfortune , for which humanity should mourn in sackcloth and ashes , but the normal and justifiable state of things . The propounder of a new truth , according to this doctrine , should stand , as stood ...
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... theory it implies , are hardly less in- sulting to believers than to infidels . For if he who does not believe in a future state , necessarily lies , it follows that they who do believe are only pre- vented from lying , if prevented ...
... theory it implies , are hardly less in- sulting to believers than to infidels . For if he who does not believe in a future state , necessarily lies , it follows that they who do believe are only pre- vented from lying , if prevented ...
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Página 7 - The subject of this essay is not the so-called "liberty of the will," so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of philosophical necessity; but civil, or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.
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What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition) Alan F. Chalmers Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |