Autobiography
Title | Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
Title | Autobiography of John Stuart Mill PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | NuVision Publications, LLC |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Philosophers |
ISBN |
Autobiography
Title | Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0198759606 |
Describes the philosopher's life from his development as a child prodigy, to his near suicide at the age of twenty-one, through his growth as a philosopher and social thinker.
John Stuart Mill, Socialist
Title | John Stuart Mill, Socialist PDF eBook |
Author | Helen McCabe |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-03-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0228005930 |
Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself "under the general designation of Socialist." Taking this self-description seriously, John Stuart Mill, Socialist reinterprets Mill's work in its light. Helen McCabe explores the nineteenth-century political economist's core commitments to egalitarianism, social justice, social harmony, and a socialist utopia of cooperation, fairness, and human flourishing. Uncovering Mill's changing relationship with the radicalism of his youth and his excitement about the revolutionary events of 1848, McCabe argues that he saw liberal reforms as solutions to contemporary problems, while socialism was the path to a better future. In so doing, she casts new light on his political theory, including his theory of social progress; his support for democracy; his feminism; his concept of utility; his understanding of individuality; and his account of "the permanent interests of man as a progressive being," which is so central to his famous harm principle. As we look to rebuild the world in the wake of financial crises, climate change, and a global pandemic, John Stuart Mill, Socialist offers a radical rereading of the philosopher and a fresh perspective on contemporary meanings of socialism.
John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life
Title | John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Eggleston |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199931972 |
John Stuart Mill, one of the most influential figures in moral and political philosophy, saw the doctrines he advanced in Utilitarianism and On Liberty as parts of a larger system he called the "Art of Life," yet he said surprisingly little about it per se. This volume offers original essays on this relatively untapped area of Mill scholarship written by specialists on Mill's practical philosophy.
John Stuart Mill
Title | John Stuart Mill PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Reeves |
Publisher | Atlantic Books Ltd |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2015-02-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1782397132 |
A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. As a journalist he fired off a weekly article on Irish land reform as the people of that nation starved, as an MP he introduced the first vote on women's suffrage, fought to preserve free-speech and opposed slavery, and, in his private life, pursued for two decades a love affair with another man's wife. To understand Mill and his contribution, Richard Reeves explores his life and work in tandem. His book is a riveting and authoritative biography of a man raised to promote happiness, whose life was spent in the pursuit of truth and liberty for all.
Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt
Title | Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2010-08-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1460402103 |
John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this Broadview Edition, Colin Heydt provides a substantial introduction that will enable readers to understand better the polemical context for Utilitarianism. Heydt shows, for example, how Mill’s moral philosophy grew out of political engagement, rather than exclusively out of a speculative interest in determining the nature of morality. Appendices include precedents to Mill’s work, reactions to Utilitarianism, and related writings by Mill.