On Mill Freedom Of Speech Thinking

Mill is a famous liberalism thinker of Britain in the 19th century, and has made overall and deep exposition to the free principle. Especially Mill's freedom of discussion thought is praised as"the most classical defence of freedom of the press in English-Speaking World ". His thought is also the principle of American's mass media law .It is very important for human society to protect freedom of discussion, which is beneficial for people to enrich knowledge and acquire truth; to promote and guarantee democratic politics; to realize individual values. Actually, freedom of discussion is always relative. Therefore, it is necessary to restrict the freedom of discussion reasonably. Chinese government has undertaken a lot of fruitful job in protecting and restraining freedom of discussion, but many problems have also arisen. The discussion on Mill's thought of freedom of discussion will offer reference to the contemporary socialist democracy and the law construction.The thesis is divided into forth parts. The first part makes the brief summary in Mill's freedom of discussion connotation, the freedom of discussion and other free relations, there is a whole realize to Mills of definition of freedom of discussion.The second and the third parts analyze the Mill freedom of discussion truth value, the democratic value and the individual value, as well as Mill freedom of discussion limit principle and its principle application.The forth part makes total appraisal to Mill's freedom of discussion rationality and limitation of it.