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Reverting to the extended political thought of John Locke and John Stuart Mill, key founders of “classical liberalism” and “modern liberalism,” respectively, this chapter extracts a common model of liberty from their supposedly opposite liberal stances. This model revolves around two interrelated spheres of liberty: “external” liberty, corresponding to political liberties understood as basic liberal rights, and “internal” (conscious) liberty, encapsulated in the connection between the ability of an agent to choose and her use of reason.
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It is impossible, of course, to cite here all the contemporary works that refer to Mill’s liberty in this attempt to cope with or reconsider the various issues relating to questions of a specific individual’s liberties. Nevertheless, the following is a list of some of the most notable sources: B. Barry, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001);
Bruce Baum, “Feminism, Liberalism and Cultural Pluralism: J. S. Mill on Mormon Polygyny,” Journal of Political Philosophy 5 (3) (1997): 230–53;
Fred R. Berger, Freedom of Expression (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1980);
David O. Brink, “Millian Principles, Freedom of Expression, and Hate Speech,” Legal Theory 7 (2) (2001): 119–57;
Nicholas Capaldi, “John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Liberal Culture,” in Mill and the Moral Character of Liberalism, ed. Eldon J. Eisenach (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1998): 77–114;
David Dyzanhaus, “John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography,” Ethics 102 (3) (1992): 534–51; Frances E. Gill, “Mill on Censorship,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World (1999); Jill Gordon, “John Stuart Mill and the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’,” Social Theory and Practice (1997);
Alan Haworth, Free Speech (New York: Routledge, 1998);
Paul Kelly, “The Long Shadow of John Stuart Mill: Brian Barry on Culture and Freedom,” Contemporary Politics 8 (2) (2002): 117–28;
J. Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986);
J. Raz, “Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle,” in Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy, ed. R. Gavison (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987);
Evan Simpson, “Responsibilities for Hateful Speech,” Legal Theory 12 (2) (2006): 157–77;
John Skorupski, Why Read Mill Today? (Oxford: Routledge Taylor Francis, 2006).
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Bentwich, M. (2012). Empowering Liberty: Liberty as Interrelated Self and Societal Empowerment. In: Reclaiming Liberty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016683_3
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