caa a22 4500 378920596 CHVBK 20180305123604.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200405 xx s 000 0 mul 10.1515/SATS.2004.83 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/SATS.2004.83 Haraldsson Róbert H. Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland. robhar@hi.is "This all but universal illusion ...”. Remarks on the question: Why did Mill write On Liberty? [Elektronische Daten] [Róbert H. Haraldsson] Why did Mill write On Liberty? After motivating the need for asking this seemingly unnecessary question, I argue that Mill's main concern was not with defi ning the scope and content of the principle of liberty or with eliciting assent from his contemporaries; but rather with showing what taking such a very simple principle to heart amounts to. The notion of taking a doctrine to heart highlights a common theme behind many of the seemingly unrelated issues of the book. Finally, the paper offers some explanations of our failure to take to heart doctrines which we at one level assent to. © Philosophia Press 2004 SATS Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 5/1(2004-05), 83-109 1600-1974 5:1<83 2004 5 SATS https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS.2004.83 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS.2004.83 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haraldsson Róbert H. Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland. robhar@hi.is NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- SATS Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 5/1(2004-05), 83-109 1600-1974 5:1<83 2004 5 SATS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter