MILL JOHN-STUART

(P/B) ON THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN
Convinced that the subordination of women was an irrational and outmoded social custom, John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor Mill set about arguing for equality between the sexes. The essay they wrote is a striking and clearsighted denunciation of the status quo, carefully demolishing ancient, lingering prejudices and setting out a new agenda for human progress. At the time a radical clarion call for change, their passionate and eloquent arguments still have the power to challenge and confront the prevailing patriarchal bias in mod...
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(P/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL (VOLUMES SEVEN AND EIGHT)

ΠΕΡΙ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑΣ
Ακόμα και σήμερα το δοκίμιο "Περί ελευθερίας" ισχύει ως η τελειότερη και καλύτερη έκφραση της πίστης ενός φιλελεύθερου στην πρόοδο της ανθρωπότητας μέσω της ελευθερίας του πνεύματος. Σε κανένα άλλο βιβλίο, σε όλες τις χώρες και σε όλες τις εποχές, δεν διατυπώθηκε τόσο καθαρά και δεν υποστηρίχτηκε τόσο αποφασιστικά η ιδέα για την ελευθερία του ατόμου. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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THREE ESSAYS ON RELIGION
Published between 1850 and 1870, English social and political philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) offers his most sustained analysis of religious belief. Though not prepared to abandon the idea of an overall design in nature, Mill nonetheless argues that its violence and capriciousness mitigate against moral ends in nature's workings. Moreover, any designer of such a world as we experience cannot be all powerful and all good, for nature is "too clumsily made and capriciously governed." (From the publisher)...
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CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader of this volume senses that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule with minority rights while at the same time being just enough of an aristocrat to believe that the masses need examplars to emulate. On Representative Government is one of the most compelling political essays of the 19th century. (From th...
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(P/B) ON LIBERTY
Mill predicted that "the Liberty is likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written...because the conjunction of [Harriet Taylor's] mind with mine has rendered it a kind of philosophic text-book of a single truth, which the changes progressively taking place in modern society tend to bring out in ever greater relief." Indeed, On Liberty is one of the most influential books ever written, and remains a foundational document for the understanding of vital political, philosophical and social issues. In addition to its many usef...
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(P/B) THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN

(P/B) PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

(P/B) UTILITARIANISM
What is the foundation upon which moral judgments are made? Why and how do we conclude that an action, performed or contemplated, is right or wrong, good or bad? In the eighteenth century, English philosopher Jeremy Bentham developed the now famous moral theory known as utilitarianism, which is based upon the pleasure principle - a concept whose history can be traced back to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and to Hedonism. In his acclaimed essay Utilitarianism (1863), John Stuart Mill, the intellectual creation of his father (James ...
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(P/B) THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN

ON SOCIALISM

(P/B) APPLIED ETHICS
This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Ha...
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL (VOLUME ONE) (P/B)

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL (VOLUME TWO AND THREE) (P/B)

ON LIBERTY

MILL: AUTOBIOGRAPHY (B) (0140433163)

(P/B) UTILITARIANISM
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this edition, Colin Heydt provides ...
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ESSAYS ON SEX EQUALITY (P/B)

(P/B) ON LIBERTY
'The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way'. On Liberty is dedicated to one simple principle: that men and women should be free to do as they please, without interference from society or the State, unless their actions might cause harm to others. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to William Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who transformed the concept into a philosophy, claiming for it a central role in social policy and governme...
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(P/B) THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN