Abstract
This chapter discusses John Stuart Mill's liberal theory, confirming what principle ought to govern the relationship between the individual and society and when it is permissible for society to interfere with the individual. It explicates the general value Mill places on what is known as liberty as non-interference and argues that Mill both echoes and exceeds the core Benthamite reasons for valuing liberty. It also addresses the meaning of the so-called Harm Principle, wherein “harm” for Mill is to act “unjustly” and it merges Mill's liberal theory with his moral theory. The chapter reconstructs Mill's absolutist defense of intellectual liberty and pays special attention to Mill's conception of individual originality, including how it deepens and refines his theory of happiness.
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