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In Our Time

On Liberty

2/12/202649 min

Journalist, author and historian Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time, succeeding Melvyn Bragg who retired from this role last summer. Misha and his guests discuss the landmark work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 and the increasing recognition for his wife Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution. The subject matter of the essay is ‘civil or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual’ and it argues that the sole end for which mankind may interfere with the liberty of action of anyone is self...

Clips

Mill's shattering realization
The utilitarian compromise
Did Harriet co‑author?
Mill’s four-case defense
Limits across societies
Liberty as egalitarian project
Beyond the harm principle

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