On Liberty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

On Liberty, credited to John Stuart Mill, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill’s view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief that does not harm others. Simple though it sounds, it is a position that challenges our ideas on the very nature of government and society, and sheds light on some of the key issues we face today. A key text of political philosophy, On Liberty has been continuously in print since its first publication.(Summary by David Barnes).

Recording facts

• Recording title: On Liberty
• Author credits: John Stuart Mill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 5:21:54

Catalogue topics

• philosophy

Track guide

1. Ch 1 - Introductory — 44:51
2. Ch 2 - Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion - pt 1 — 52:32
3. Ch 2 - Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion - pt 2 — 1:00:40
4. Ch 3 - Of Individuality — 49:01
5. Ch 4 - Of the Limits to the Authority of Society — 50:19
6. Ch 5 - Applications — 1:04:34

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