J. S. Mill On Liberty

Beginner's Introduction. On Liberty is a classic text of Classical Liberalism, that states you should be allowed to say, be, do what you want if it concerns only yourself. Here I go into the 3 freedoms of speech, character and action. Also the 2 maxims of the relationship between society and the individual. On the whole the work is about when and under what circumstances society may be justified in intervening on the individual and imposing its will.

As to free speech, I have tried to use the text to get Mill's answers to questions about free speech: why not "but there will be consequences", to what extreme, is there no limit, what about disrespectful debating?

0:00 Introduction
1:36 The path to certainty
8:38 Freedom of speech
11:49 Freedom of character
16:40 Freedom to act
21:49 The threat of Barbarism
26:28 The two maxims
27:56 Criticism