Mill On Liberty

‘On Liberty’ is the name of one of the most famous works by John Stuart Mill. In his book ‘On Liberty’ what John Mill focused was in own idea of freedom, but he conjugate his points of view with the government, the state and history. This book explains to us how society evolves even in the time when was kind of hard to express your own ideas.
Chapter one is mostly focused on liberty. It defines social liberty as ‘the nature of limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.’ He also tells us about the struggle between liberty and authority, but he focuses in three main places, Rome, Greece, and England. In those times, liberty meant ‘protection against the tyranny of political rulers’. In this case the rulers consisted of a governing one, or a tribe or caste, which their authority was absolutely necessary, however it was very dangerous, because they would use their weapons to keep anyone down. The patriots were in charge to limit the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community, and they had two ‘strategies’ or ways, …show more content…
What John Mills believed was that was fair that the people could be protected against all this tyrannies. However in the political and philosophical theories, as it says in the book ‘success discloses faults and infirmities which failure might have concealed from observation’. Most of the time, people thought they had the power and that they controlled their own people, however the government was still controlling them through themselves, this is kind of confusing but it is true. The limitation of the power of the government in this case over the people or individuals never loosed importance because the power of the accountable to the community, that is the strongest