The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, Mill systematically demonstrated how important economic concepts could be applied to real-world situations. In his emphasis on realism, Mill thus took economics out of th...

A Clear and Influential Defense of Utilitarian EthicsUtilitarianism by John Stuart Mill is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. First published as a series of essays in 1861, it offers a concise defense of utilitarianism while responding to some of the most common misunderstandings of the theory.Mill argues that actions are morally right insofar as they promote happiness and wrong insofar as they produce the opposite. He defi...

On Liberty is an impassioned application of author John Stuart Mill’s philosophical theory of utilitarianism, which argues that the highest state of being is that which is most useful in maximizing happiness and diminishing suffering. In On Liberty, Mill famously stresses the importance of individuality and the need to limit the power of governments over their people.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the...

Mill sets the limit: society may coerce a man only to prevent harm to others, and everything else — his opinions, his tastes, the way he chooses to live — is his own. He wrote it with his wife Harriet Taylor and published it in 1859, the year after her death, calling it as much hers as his. The chapter on why a silenced opinion is a loss even when it is wrong has never been answered better.

Mill sets the limit: society may coerce a man only to prevent harm to others, and everything else — his opinions, his tastes, the way he chooses to live — is his own. He wrote it with his wife Harriet Taylor and published it in 1859, the year after her death, calling it as much hers as his. The chapter on why a silenced opinion is a loss even when it is wrong has never been answered better.

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Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

A landmark of nineteenth-century philosophy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is John Stuart Mill’s ambitious attempt to define the principles of reasoning, evidence, and scientific inquiry.First published in 1843, this monumental work explores the foundations of deductive and inductive logic, the methods by which knowledge is formed, and the rules that guide human understanding from observation to general truth. Mill examines language...

John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.The John Stuart Mill Collection featu...

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an English philosopher and economist. He wrote one of his most famous essays, "On Liberty", in 1859."On Liberty" is the philosophy classic that laid the foundation of modern liberal politics, by applying the concept of utilitarianism to societies and countries, in order to create a working system between authority and liberty.It was widely read at the time, and in the century and a half since it was published, it has proven to be one of the ...

This book contains the major works of John Stuart Mill:[1843] A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive[1848] The Principles of Political Economy[1859] On Liberty[1861] Representative Government[1863] Utilitarianism[1869] The Subjection of Women[1873] Autobiography

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of 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'...