John Stuart Mill · Politics
Mill’s warning that the gravest threat to freedom in a democracy is not the tyrant but the crushing pressure of mass opinion to make everyone the same.
You learned that Mill feared social conformity more than legal tyranny. Explain why he thought ‘experiments in living’ matter for everyone, not just the eccentric, in your own words.
Leads to Friedrich Nietzsche.
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