John Stuart Mill
Paperback | Pages: 640 pages Rating: 4.06 | 6210 Users | 57 Reviews
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| Original Title: | On Liberty and Other Essays |
| ISBN: | 0192833847 (ISBN13: 9780192833846) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show John Stuart Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow.Specify Of Books On Liberty and Other Essays
| Title | : | On Liberty and Other Essays |
| Author | : | John Stuart Mill |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oxford World's Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 640 pages |
| Published | : | March 5th 1998 by Oxford University Press (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. Classics |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 6210 Users | 57 ReviewsAssessment Of Books On Liberty and Other Essays
This is a nice edition bringing together 4 of Mill's essays into one volume.If you are not familiar with Mill's writing the underlying ideas are powerful even if there are flaws in some of the arguments. His liberalism was ahead of its time, and its easy to forget how radical some of his views were. The writing style is typical of its era - long winded, long sentences and long paragraphs. Focus on what he is saying rather than how he is saying it, and you will get most out of it. If Mill wasNICE BOOK.
Well, it's a bit dry for sure, it was after all published in 1859 as one piece, so it can be a bit like gnawing on drywall, but this is a seminal text in these troubling days. I believe liberty to be at risk, despite Obama's triumph last November. If nothing else, it will give you keen insight on how to deal with situations you do not agree with.
Read On Liberty (1859) and Utilitarianism (1861), both for a second time. I am still impressed by the force of Mill's arguments and his ethical exhaltedness. Personally, I think On Liberty should be obligatory reading for all students all over the world. Mill's plea for radical individual freedom, especially its use for society as a whole (which usually is neglected) is a healthy antidote in these times where different forms of totalitarianism are spreading across the globe. Tech giants, radical
Required reading for Modern History at University of Alberta. Provides the basic for modern libertarianism and utilitarianism.
This book is not an easy read because of it's complex content, nineteenth-century learned readers had immense economies for words and twenty-first-century readers are quite remedial in comparison. Yet if you get passed the heavy language, there are some dynamically interesting ideals being discussed here, some progressively liberal and others backwardly imperialistic. Mill is ahead of his time for his advocacy for women's rights, the dedication is to his wife Harriet, a brilliant woman, whom
An excellent collection of Mill's essays on relations of government to people and vice versa. It loses one star for the unfortunately naive line: "The time, it is to be hoped, is gone by, when any defense would be necessary of the liberty of the press as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government.
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