On Liberty & Utilitarianism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mill, John Stuart.

Contributor:

Spencer, Mark G.

Series:

Classics of World Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ware : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

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 Representative Government (1861), Utilitarianism (1863), and The Subjection of Women (1869) are four of his most famous works; they are central pillars on which Mill's high reputation rests. Also included for the light they shed on Mill and his times are two of his lesser-known works - 'The Contest in America' (1862), written in the context of the American Civil War; and his erudite but accessible Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews (1867). Mill contributed to several contemporary debates, including ones about where to draw the proper boundaries between the 'liberty of the individual' on one hand and the 'security of the state' on the other. Living as we do in a world where those boundaries continue to be tested and contested, Mill's timeless writings are of no less value to us today than they were to those who read them when they were first published.

Contents:

Contents

Introduction

Early Life

Intellectual Development

Harriet Taylor

On Liberty

Considerations on Representative Government

Utilitarianism

The Subjection of Women

Inaugural Address

Further Reading

Chapter One

Introductory

Chapter Two

On the liberty of thought and discussion

Chapter Three

Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being

Chapter Four

Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual

Chapter Five

Applications

Representative Government

Preface

To what extent forms of government are a matter of choice

The criterion of a good form of government

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ISBN:

9781848706217

1848706219

OCLC:

1038058808