There are few circumstances, among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most...
There are few circumstances, among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more si...
John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century." Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.
John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to so...
The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress of reflection and the experience of life: That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes--the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be...
The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had f...
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsification as...
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, polit...
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), war einer der einflussreichsten Denker des Liberalismus. Der soziale Reformer schrieb Werke der klassischen Nationalokonomie, die bis heute die Basis dieses Fachs bilden. Die vorliegende Sammlung seiner Essays Natur," Die Nutzlichkeit der Religion" und Theismus" entstammen seinem schriftlichen Nachlass. Obwohl nicht direkt zusammengehorig, veranschaulichen sie auf ihre je eigene Weise Mills Blick auf religiose Themen und bieten auch knapp 150 Jahre nach Erscheinen noch neue Einsichten in einen Bereich, der bereits uber die Jahrtausende einen Grundpfeiler der...
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), war einer der einflussreichsten Denker des Liberalismus. Der soziale Reformer schrieb Werke der klassischen Nationalokon...
On Liberty is a philosophical work by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of Utilitarianism. Furthermore, Mill criticised the errors of past attempts to defend individuality where, for example, democratic ideals resulted in the "tyranny of the...
On Liberty is a philosophical work by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies...
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles ...
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles ...
Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however, in the fact of bringing them together, and exhibiting them in their connection, and also, I believe, in much that is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet...
Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for th...
