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Abstract
Mill on freedom and mental well-being
In spite of the enormous discussion that Mill’s defense of freedom of thought
and expression has sparked over the past century and a half, I argue that the
wording of the main conclusion in chapter two of On Liberty (1859) has gone
more or less unnoticed in the secondary literature. Commentators almost never
pay any attention to the fact that Mill claims as his chief conclusion that freedom
of thought and expression is necessary for the mental well-being of mankind. In
this paper I consider why the commentators have paid so little attention to Mill’s
precise wording of his conclusion – they have ignored both the term “mental
well-being” and “mankind” – and how a fuller picture of his defense for freedom
of thought and expression is forthcoming if we retain his own wording. In order
to understand what Mill means by the mental well-being of mankind and a lack
thereof, I also study two movements from contemporary North America which I
argue suffered from a lack of mental well-being in Mill’s sense of the term.