Discuss classic and award winning ebooks with other readers. Click event title for Zoom link. Contact Lissa at classicsmodern@tscpl.org for help with the Zoom link, Facebook group or questions.
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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mill's work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. Interestingly for modern discussion, after meeting and subsequently marrying his wife Harriet, Mill changed many of his beliefs on moral life and women's rights. Mill states that On Liberty "was more directly and literally our joint production than anything else which bears my name."
Read the ebook or listen to the abridged audiobook on Hoopla or check availability on physical items from the library. On Liberty is available as an ebook through Project Gutenberg also.
Read 150 pages or listen to the 5 hour audiobook.
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2 pm, Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Join Zoom Meeting: https://tscpl.zoom.us/j/84879842665?pwd=0m3Z1Brb2S5AE9wspHmnQuz3TOUT6E.1
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Books/Authors/Writing |
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