Part 8

in a proprietary way. He takes a step forward in the development that interests us. He protects the individual and freedom not only from the encroachment of the state - which serves as the theme of V. Humboldt - but also from the encroachment of despotism, morals, customs and traditional prejudices. In both cases, the defense is based on the principle of individuality. What is individuality? We would look in vain for an exact definition of this concept from the author, as well as a definition of the concept of “society”. However, the third chapter of his treatise “Op Shegbu” bears the title: “about individuality as one of the elements of well-being.” Thus, as far as one can understand about Mill’s opinion, individuality is a complex of physical, spiritual and moral properties of a person, which are characteristic of his individual, and not an instance, and it is specifically distinguished from other individuals. This complex is the original unity of the forces of nature, on the basis of which, under favorable conditions, a progressive type of personality is created, and under unfavorable conditions, the originality and originality of the personality is eradicated. Mill, following Humboldt, considers freedom and diversity of personal situations to be favorable; unfavorable - despotic leveling in society and the state. Since people, having eliminated the separate class of politically dominant ones, occupied the predominant place in states, they have achieved a limitation of government power. But this is also the question of the guarantee: the scope of such limitations is not exhausted until the question of the boundaries of individual freedom is properly resolved. But individual freedom, that is, the freedom of association, worship, speech, press, and assembly is in such a shadowy connection with the individual’s opposition to the social environment that Mill undertook a thorough study of the arguments of these freedoms and the combination of these freedoms. Moreover, to protect freedoms equally, both from the state and from society. He points out that these