It is not likely that students will have read any books directly related to John Stuart Mill and "On Liberty," but many of the arguments and ideas presented within the work will likely seem familiar to students by virtue of their having grown up in a liberal democratic society.
Mill's theories of government can be further studied in his "Considerations on Representative Government," and his ideas on moral philosophy in "Utilitarianism." Utilitarianism is also known in popular philosophy through various representations of "the trolley problem," which was initially introduced by Philippa Foot and later identified and popularized in Judith Jarvis Thomson's 1976 "Killing, Letting Die, and...
