A Reflection Of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty

In his presentation in the book On Liberty the English philosopher John Stuart Mill presents to his readers an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. He tries to investigate standards for the link between authority and liberty (Andreas-Salomé & Mandel, 2001). In doing all this, he emphasizes the importance of individuality that he considers as a precondition to the higher pleasure. In addition, he criticized the errors of previous efforts to defend the individuality where, for example, democratic epitomized to the "tyranny of the majority". Amongst the canons established in this work are his three essential liberties of a person, his three legitimate protests to government intervention, and Mill’s two maxims concerning the relationship of the individual to society. In the third chapter which is of concern, Mill points out to the reader’s inherent value of each person. Individuality to him he considers ex vi termini as it is defined,

To him individuality is significant since people can learn nonconformists. He considered individuals inherent and as such people should be allowed to exercise these differences (Mill, Smith & Gray, 1991). He acknowledges the fact that making people similar is negating their unique qualities. The more people try to make individuals look similar the more the unique individual qualities they have are lost. Nietzsche’s proclamation necessarily undermines the belief that individuals already have solutions to the call to know themselves individually. To him, either individual have ignored the command to know themselves when he says that (“Not ever have we sought after ourselves”) or we have never attempted to comply with it. According to his interpretation of human urgency it can be highlighted that: To know ourselves individually, we must seek to know what we know and at the same time know how we know