Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. Written by political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill, the essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. The essay provides support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory and defends it against a wide range of criticisms and misunderstandings. Though heavily criticized both in Mill's lifetime and in the years since, Utilitarianism has been credited with...
Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. Written by political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mi...
For just over fifty years John Stuart Mill contributed articles and letters to the newspapers, setting before the public a radical position on contemporary events. From 1822 to 1873, in newspapers as widely read as The Times and the Morning Chronicle, and as narrowly circulated as the True Sun and the New Times, he praised his friends and damned his opponents, while commenting on a while range of issues at home and abroad, from banking to Ireland, from wife-beating to land nationalization.
His main series of newspaper writings concerned France...
For just over fifty years John Stuart Mill contributed articles and letters to the newspapers, setting before the public a radical position on cont...
2017 Reprint of 1869 Edition. Mill attacks the argument that women are naturally worse at some things than men are and should, therefore, be discouraged or forbidden from doing them. He says that we simply do not know what women are capable of, because we have never let them try – one cannot make an authoritative statement without evidence. We cannot stop women from trying things because they might not be able to do them. An argument based on speculative physiology is just that, speculation. Mills felt that even in societies as unequal as England and the U.S. one...
2017 Reprint of 1869 Edition. Mill attacks the argument that women are naturally worse at some things than men are and should, therefore, be ...
THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided...
THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but ...
Los Tratados morales son pequenas obras, no propiamente dialogos sino ensayos sobre problemas de moral. Los temas abordados en ellos son muy variados, desde como ha de ser la clemencia de los gobernantes, hasta como debe el sabio aprovechar su tiempo de ocio: De la Providencia, De la firmeza del sabio, De la felicidad, De la vida retirada o del ocio, De la serenidad del alma, De la brevedad de la vida, De la clemencia y, ademas, la Consolacion a Polibio constituyen un libro en el que Seneca, el mas ilustre exponente del estoicismo de la epoca imperial, nos muestra su filosofia del vir fortis,...
Los Tratados morales son pequenas obras, no propiamente dialogos sino ensayos sobre problemas de moral. Los temas abordados en ellos son muy variados,...
Sobre la libertad es quizas una de las obras mas importantes que escribio John Stuart Mill. En este libro el autor expone sus ideas fundamentales sobre los limites de la libertad del individuo y la sociedad. Desde el primer capitulo Mill establece la separacion entre lo que es responsabilidad del propio individuo y lo que le corresponde a la sociedad en conjunto. Aun asi, el tema sobre el cual escribe el autor es muy polemico, ya que como saber hasta que punto uno es libre de hacer lo que crea? Aunque Mill no puede responder exactamente a esta cuestion, plantea que al menos en parte es valido...
Sobre la libertad es quizas una de las obras mas importantes que escribio John Stuart Mill. En este libro el autor expone sus ideas fundamentales sobr...
