John Stuart: 227 books

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, 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...

J.S. Mill's deep interest in French intellectual, political, and social affairs began in 1820 when, in his fourteenth year, he went to France to live for a year with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham. French became his second language, and France his second home, where he died and was buried in 1873....

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, a most significant and popular work, presenting an extended...

De clara unidad temática, los tres ensayos de John Suart Mill recogidos en este volumen corresponden a fechas diferentes y se publicaron por primera vez en forma de libro póstumamente, editados por Helen Taylor, hijastra del autor. La Naturaleza es un ejercicio de filosofía de la religión en el...

Extrait :  Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout  bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès  qu’a fait la discussion sur le...

Extrait :  Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout  bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès  qu’a...

One of the constant fascinations Mill holds for the general public as well as scholars derives from the early flowering of his genius. This development is seen in detail in the journal and notebook he kept in France during his fifteenth year, and in the debating speeches and walking-tour journals...

'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...

Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout  bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès  qu’a fait la discussion...

Je dois, au début même de cet essai de biographie, faire connaître les raisons qui m’ont déterminé à laisser après moi un souvenir d’une vie aussi dépourvue d’événements que l’a été la mienne. Je ne m’arrête pas un seul instant à la pensée que ce que je vais raconter puisse...

As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Seythian ice, or frozen sea, so, in this great work of mine, in which I...

Heliogabalus was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served the god Heliogabalus as a priest in Emesa, the hometown of his mother's family. As a private citizen,...

'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...