Essays on Liberty

How much freedom can a person in a society have? How much freedom is too much? When can society step in and intervene with a person’s freedom? John Stuart Mill attempts to answer these questions and more in his book, On Liberty. This essay will…

What then is liberty? The power to live as you will The noun liberty has its etymological roots in the Latin ‘libertas’. ‘Libertas’, which has further evolved from ‘liber’, denotes ‘free will; freedom ‘. By the early modern period, the term had been allocated to…

The topic of abortion has been one of the most heavily debated topics in the United States today. Generally it is seen as a two- sided debate, a person can be “pro-life” or “pro-choice”. Ultimately the abortion topic comes down to the legality and moral…

Sweet Land of Liberty In the book, Sweet Land of Liberty, Thomas Sugrue gives the account of human rights struggle in the US. He covers the struggle from the 1920s to the time he writes the book. Sugrue holds that the struggle for racial equality…

Critically assess Mill’s principle of liberty John Stuart Mill was an English political economist and civil servant born in the nineteenth century. His ideas of liberalism, developed and deviated from his famous father, James Mill’s, far surpassed any that had been popular at the time….

Instead of upholding interests of citizens, governments opportunistically manipulate the truth and restrain civil liberties of its citizens in order to push for their political agenda, hence establishing a situation of inequality between power holders and their citizens. This notion of injustice is demonstrated through…