The interests and activities of John Stuart Mill (1806-73) were so wide-ranging that even the varied subjects of thirty previously published volumes of Collected Works cannot encompass them all. In this volume are brought together diverse and interesting instances of his polymathic career, none before republished and some previously unpublished.
Neatly framing Mill's writing career are his editorial prefaces and extensive notes to Jeremy Bentham;s Rationale of Judicial Evidence (1827) and James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1869). Both...
The interests and activities of John Stuart Mill (1806-73) were so wide-ranging that even the varied subjects of thirty previously published volume...
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 treatment of some matters central to empiricism that found little space in Mill's Logic, the best known being his treatment of matter and mind from a psychological viewpoint.
Appearing just before his successful parliamentary candidature, the...
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth...
This book tells the history of liberty from Magna Carta to the present day in Britain, Canada, the United States and the Anglosphere generally. It stresses the importance of institutions, but also of culture and of ideas.
This book tells the history of liberty from Magna Carta to the present day in Britain, Canada, the United States and the Anglosphere generally. It str...
