{"product_id":"on-liberty-by-john-stuart-mill-9780140432077","title":"On Liberty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.\" To this \"one very simple principle\" the whole of Mill's essay \u003ci\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e is dedicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organised the idea into a philosophy, and put it into the form in which it is generally known today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe editor of this essay, Gertrude Himmelfarb, records responses to Mill's books and comments on his fear of \"the tyranny of the majority.\" Dr Himmelfarb concludes that the same inconsistencies which underlie \u003ci\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e continue to complicate the moral and political stance of liberals today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46502349340908,"sku":"9780140432077","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27208543482237.jpg?v=1748613236","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/on-liberty-by-john-stuart-mill-9780140432077","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}