On Liberty

This book by John Stuart Mill was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jonathan Haidt. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

• “One of the greatest works of the Liberal tradition is On Liberty. It's a kind of a long book with dense prose. But chapter two is the key chapter”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “One of the greatest works of the Liberal tradition is On Liberty”
  Jonathan Haidt · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 202201:13:38

  Said during "The Coddling of the American Mind and How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, Jonathan Haidt". The episode features Jonathan Haidt: Social psychologist at NYU's Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind, and (with Greg Lukianoff) The Coddling of the American Mind; founder of Heterodox Academy. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on antifragility, moral pluralism, why universities and kids are breaking, and getting smarter, stronger, more sociable.