About civil liberty

The attention of readers is offered a book by an outstanding English philosopher, psychologist, sociologist and economist John Stewart Mill (1806-1873), which studies the problem of civilian freedom. According to the author himself, the subject of work is the “not so -called free will”, namely civil, or social, freedom, that is, the “properties and limits of that power, the power of which society fully controls individual individuals.” In various chapters of the book, Mill discusses the freedom of thought and word, about individuality as one of the conditions of human well -being, as well as the existing limits of the power of society over the individual.
A book written more than a hundred years ago (the first Russian edition was published in 1901) will be interesting to historians of philosophical and social thought, social scholars, political scientists, as well as a wide range of readers