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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
Category: Fiction
One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - in ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writer, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, Mill proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Category: Culture | Series: English Library
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill; Elizabeth Rapaport (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
On Libertyby John Stuart MillOn Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.
On Liberty: Bold-faced Thoughts on Free Will, Free Speech, and the Importance of Individuality by John Stuart Mill
Category: Politics
"On Liberty", John Stuart Mill's classic critique of the ethical limits of governmental authority, remains one of the most influential philosophical treatises ever written. This interactive edition in our popular "Bold-Faced" series prompts readers to reflect on the importance of free will, free speech ...Show more
On Liberty & The Subjection Of Women by John Stuart Mill
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy 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 ...Show more
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
Category: Culture | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes ...Show more
On Liberty and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Category: Reference | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Together these two essays mark the philosophic cornerstone of democratic morality and represent a thought-provoking search for the true balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state. Thoroughly schooled in the principles of the utilitarian movement founded by Jeremy Bentham, Jo ...Show more
On Liberty and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the most important of Britain's nineteenth-century philosophers. His writings and activities were many and varied. The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span, from 1859 to 1869. On Liberty (1859), Considerations on ...Show more
On the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
Category: Fiction
'The object of the Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress r ...Show more
Utilitarianism - With Related Remarks from Mill's Other Writings by John Stuart Mill; Ben Eggleston (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ranging from his treatise on logic to his personal correspondence. In these remarks, Mill comments on specific passages of Utilitarianism , elaborates on top ...Show more
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham
Category: Philosophy and Religion
One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was the mo ...Show more
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