On Liberty and Other Essays (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

On Liberty and Other Essays (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

This volume, containing Mill's 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations of Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women', draws together the basic ideas of liberalism that, although radical in their time, have gained recognition as comprehensive and relevant fundamentals of

On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic

On Liberty (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

Liberty Fund is pleased to make available in paperback eight of the original thirty-three cloth volumes of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill that were first published by the University of Toronto Press that remain most relevant to liberty and responsibility in the twenty-first century. Born

On Liberty and the Subjection of Women (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age. In On Liberty, one of the sacred texts of liberalism, he argues that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' in

Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number'. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was

John Stuart Mill, Socialist (McCabe Helen)(Paperback)

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

On Liberty (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, this title proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms, as long as we cause no harm to

Autobiography (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works

Utilitarianism (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

On Liberty (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only

O svobodě myšlení a slova - Mill John Stuart

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) je nejvlivnějším anglicky mluvícím filozofem 19. století. V anglosaském světě patří mezi nejznámější Millovy texty jeho spis O svobodě, který vyšel v roce 1859 a z kterého vám předkládáme druhou kapitolu O svobodě myšlení a slova. Toto nově

Vybrané spisy o etice, společnosti a politice II - Hippokratés

Od svého otce zdědil John Stuart Mill zájem o institucionální, politickou a právní reformu a také kontakt s osobou i dílem Jeremyho Benthama, pod vlivem autorů jako Coleridge, Carlyle, Goethe či Wordsworth se radikalismus původní verze utilitarismu pokusil zmírnit a více

On Liberty (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who

How Not to be a Doctor - And Other Essays (Launer John)(Paperback / softback)

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate personal experiences from professional ones, in short stories and reflections that will inform and entertain readers on both ends of the

Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism (Mill John Stuart)(Paperback)

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary Chapters on Socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of lasting concern: the desirability of sustained growth of national wealth and

Straight Mind - And Other Essays (Wittig Monique)(Paperback / softback)

Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays (Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm)(Paperback / softback)

Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays (Addison Joseph)(Paperback)

First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund's new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays brings together Addison's dramatic masterpiece along with a selection of his essays that develop key themes in the play. Christine Dunn

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Bakhtin M. M.)(Paperback)

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in

After Sebald - Essays and Illuminations (Coetzee John)(Paperback / softback)

What Is Man?: And Other Essays (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

These acerbic, poignant, and thought-provoking essays concern mankind, its relationship with God, and how the mind works. Twain himself considered them dark and cynical, delaying their publication for many years before finally releasing them as an anonymous, limited-edition collection. The title

Scriptures and Sectarianism: Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Collins John J.)(Paperback)

Essays representing ten years of John J. Collins's expert reflection on Scripture and the Qumran community are here collected in a volume that is sure to be of interest to students and scholars of Early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Collins opens with the introductory chapter 'What Have We

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)