Individual Civilization

In the final two chapters of the essay "On Liberty", J.S. Mill discusses a few different subjects concerning individual civilization. The one example I believe is important begins on page 92. Here he discusses how he feels about society trying to help or change a way that someone has decided to live their life. The decisions they make and the actions that they do are completely up to the individual themselves. I will try to further examine the role society plays in a person's civilization and what arguments Mill made to explain the situation.
In the first three chapters, Mill discussed when and why someone's personal
Liberties should, if at all, be taken away. He felt that only if someone was about to harm themselves or others, their liberty should be interrupted or abolished. The situation discussed in chapter four that I was mostly concerned with was when he began to talk about a person's living conditions being influenced by an outside......

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Title: J.S. Mills
Approximate Word Count: 843
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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