About civilian freedom. Mill J.S.

The attention of readers is proposed to the book of an outstanding English philosopher, psychologist, sociologist and economist John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), which studies the problem of civilian freedom of personality. According to the author himself, the subject of work is “not the 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 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.