This collection covers the breadth of Mill's work in social theory and political economy, including his ethics, liberalism, theory of government, methodology and feminism. It represents the most important scholarly and philosophical criticism of this century, illustrating the development of modern Mill scholarship and the influence of changing social conditions and philosophical trends upon it.In a general introduction the editor describes the social and intellectual context of Mill criticism, and provides a linking commentary to the material in each volume. The material in the collection displays the breadth and depth of high-quality scholarly and philosophical criticism of Mill's social thought.* Volume One covers Social Ethics* Volume Two covers Freedom* Volume Three covers Politics and Government* Volume Four covers Method, Life, Feminism and Culture
Three of Mill's classic texts, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and the posthumous Chapters on Socialism are brought together in this edition.
Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt. Ed. Alvin L. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, pp. 1-20. (Reprinted 1994 in Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory, ...
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 ...
The Improvement of Mankind: The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
This book discusses John Stuart Mill’s intellectual activity from about 1827 to 1848, namely between his recovery from his so-called ‘Mental Crisis’ and the publication of Principles of Political Economy.
From the Introduction In his Autobiography, Mill predicts that the essay On Liberty is "likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written." He goes on to say...
On Liberty John Stuart Mill - Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read ...
The questions John Stuart Mill raised a century and a half ago, in 1848's Principles of Political Economy, and the answers he found, are just as critical-and just as contentiously debated-today.
Nathanson cuts through the dated and less relevant sections of this large work and includes significant material omitted in other editions, making it possible to see the connections between the views Mill expressed in Principles of ...
I am especially thankful to James Carey, James Cook, Mark Jensen, Brent Kyle, Rhonda Smith, and James Reid. Broadview Press was extremely helpful, and I thank Leonard Conolly, Leslie Dema, Greg Janzen, and Alex Sager.