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All Minus One

All Minus One

John Stuart Mill’s Ideas on Free Speech Illustrated
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EssaysEssaysPhilosophy & Religion
Pages
48
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

John Stuart Mill's case for free speech, cut to its essentials and illustrated. Richard Reeves and Jonathan Haidt take the second chapter of On Liberty, strip away the Victorian references, and lay out Mill's three reasons why silencing an opinion costs everyone something, including the people who are sure they are right.

Dave Cicirelli's drawings carry the metaphors. At forty-eight pages it is short enough to read in one sitting, and it assumes no prior reading of Mill.

Prose complexity
1/10

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Authors

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Dave Cicirelli

Dave Cicirelli is the author of All Minus One. He writes fiction that makes you think.

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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), usually cited as J. S. Mill, was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control....