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On Liberty (1859) was John Stuart Mill's influential justification of individual freedom. In this book, Mill set out to establish a ‘simple principle’—that the only legitimate reason for interfering with someone's action was to protect someone else. Mill based his defence of liberty on utilitarian grounds, not on a natural right to freedom; arguing that on balance people were happier when left to choose their life-styles for themselves.



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