On Liberty
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584772212 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Moralies, Florida State UniversityAn impressively compact and engaging introduction and a well-chosen selection of ancillary materials -- Eileen Gillooly, Columbia UniversityThe introduction offers fresh insights --Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona. A wonderful edition -- Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers UniversityAlexander should be commended for making this invaluable material accessible to scholars and students -- Maria H
"A topical alternative…" according to John P. Jones III. John Stuart Mill was born in 1806, and would die in Avignon, France at the age of 66. He was a philosopher, with a focus on political, social and economic theory. He loved another man’s wife, Harriet Taylor, and would eventually marry her. She was a true intellectual companion who was a major influence on his work, and was an. Bromwich and Kateb Edition is Very Helpful. Kevin Currie-Knight I ihave read Mill's On Liberty three times now. The Bromwich and Kateb version is the most helpful, as we not only get to read Mill's essay, but 6 supplementary essays - two "introductions" and four sometimes critical "reinterpretations" by respected theorists.Milll's basic point is simple: people should be left free to think and d. After all, it has survived the test of time. Kazuma What J.S Mill proposes in "On Liberty" is still now convincing and interesting and I believe it should draw more attention than is the case today. True, Mill's ideas are not easily applicable to practical problems and his arguments are sometimes so defective as to be justifiably called "fallacies," but still his fundamental princip
Later refining this stance, he argued that the promotion of happiness is a moral duty (though he made a clear distinction between desirable and undesirable forms of pleasure). These ideas had a decisive influence on Mill's classic 1859 essay, perhaps the most celebrated defense of individual freedom and self-protection based on utilitarian values rather than natural right to appear in English.. Influenced by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Mill adopted a modified laissez-faire position, believing in the efficiency of free enterprise, but aware of the frequent failure of the market to maximize utility. The Origin of Liberalism
JOHN STUART MILL 1806-1873 was an English philosopher whose works made significant contributions to individualistic liberal political thought. Mill's influence continues today in this and his other widely-read texts Utilitarianism (1863), The Subjection of Women (1869) and his Autobiography (1873). . He worked for the East India Company and was a Member of Parliament for one term