John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" at 150

ABSTRACT

This conference was held to re-examine and consider Mill’s classic text, On Liberty, in acknowledgement of its 150th anniversary. Though the work's position is a contested one, with supporters and detractors among those who love liberty, this very debate suggests that there is still much to consider, even in a well-known text.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Anonymous, "The Saturday Review February 12, 1859: Mr. Mill on Political Liberty." in Liberty: Contemporary Responses To John Stuart Mill, Edited by Andrew Pyle, 6-24. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.

Anonymous, "British Quarterly Review 1860: On Liberty." in Liberty: Contemporary Responses To John Stuart Mill, Edited by Andrew Pyle, 184-209. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.

Hamburger, Joseph. “Individuality and Moral Reform: The Rhetoric of Liberty and the Reality of Restraint in Mill's On Liberty .” The Political Science Reviewer 24, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 7-70. http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/journal/issue.aspx?id=701f9773-593a-4fe4-8c81-ca8996f2ab2e (accessed ).

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb. London: Penguin, 1985.