John Stuart Mill fue un pensador prodigioso que desafió agudamente las creencias de su época. En Sobre la libertad, uno de los textos sagrados del liberalismo, argumenta que cualquier democracia corre el riesgo de convertirse en una "tiranía de la opinión" en la que se suprimen las opiniones minoritarias si no se ajustan a las de la mayoría. John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age. In On Liberty, one of the sacred texts of liberalism, he argues that any democracy risks becoming a "tyranny of opinion" in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform to those of the majority.
John Stuart Mill fue un pensador prodigioso que desafió agudamente las creencias de su época. En Sobre la libertad, uno de los textos sagrados del liberalismo, argumenta que cualquier democracia corre el riesgo de convertirse en una "tiranía de la opinión" en la que se suprimen las opiniones minoritarias si no se ajustan a las de la mayoría. John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age. In On Liberty, one of the sacred texts of liberalism, he argues that any democracy risks becoming a "tyranny of opinion" in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform to those of the majority.
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