Power, Energy, and the Society of Individuality in J. S. Mill's "On Liberty"

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I begin, haltingly, and the individual begins, for John Stuart Mill, with an impulse. My impulse, in terms of Mill, is to ask after power and energy in hisOn Liberty. There, impulses are desires and those of the “Strong” variety are synonymous with energy (Mill 2002, p. 62). An individual with their own impulses has character and one with strong impulses governed by a strong will has energetic character. One without them has no character. I begin haltingly, in part, because, insofar as my impulse is directed toward power and energy, I am unsure as to the will that may or may not govern it, whether this question reveals or begins to reveal something of my character, its degree of energy, or the lack thereof. What does it mean, in other words, to ask about power and energy in this book? Call this question the opening of an experiment in thinking.

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Cadernos Miroslav Milovic

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https://doi.org/10.46550/cadernosmilovic.v1i1.18

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J. E. C. Grıffıth, “Power, Energy, and the Society of Individuality in J. S. Mill’s “On Liberty”,” Cadernos Miroslav Milovic, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5–15, 2023, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102481.