On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Second Edition. John Stuart Mill Edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen Oxford World's Classics. A revised edition of the best single-volume compilation of Mill's principal works, including a new introduction, expanded notes, and an index for the first time.
Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show John Stuart Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today--the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place.
On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill.Published in 1859, it applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill suggests standards for the relationship between authority and liberty.He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures—the summum bonum of utilitarianism.
In J.C. Reese’s essay, A Re-reading of Mill on Liberty, he distinguishes other-regarding actions to affect other people’s interests in their moral rights, that of liberty and security. ( 21 ) Therefore, the “harm to others” implied in On Liberty refers to the harm of an individual’s moral interests, resulting in injustice towards the individual.
VOLTAIRE, TOLERATION AND OTHER ESSAYS (1763) INTRODUCTION IT seems useful, in presenting to English readers this selection of the works of Voltaire, to recall the position and personality of the writer and the circumstances in which the works were written. It is too lightly assumed, even by many who enjoy the freedom which he, more than.
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This edition supersedes an earlier On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics), edited by John Gray, which was a staple for students of politics and philosophy. The essays herein are not the most definitive statements of Mill’s views, but represent his attempts to write for a general audience.
On Liberty and Other Essays. John Stuart Mill (ed.) Oxford University Press (2008). On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of.
In his essays on Bentham and Coleridge, and above all in Utilitarianism, Mill balanced the claims of reason and the imagination, justice and expediency, individuality and social well-being in a system of ethics that is as relevant to today's intellectua and moral dilemmas it was to the nineteenth century's.
John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” essay, published in 1859, portrays Mill’s perception of liberty with an emphasis on individuality. He explicitly states at the start of the essay that the main point is to “govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control” (5).