Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873,
On liberty : annotated text sources and background criticism / John Stuart Mill ; edited by David Spitz. - First edition. A norton critical edition. - xi, 260 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index.
Annotated text of on liberty -- Of the liberty of thought and discussion -- Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being -- Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual -- Applications -- [Writing of "On liberty"] / [Early essay on toleration] / Criticism -- Case against Mill -- Mill on liberty -- [Mill's fallacies] / "Open society" and its fallacies / [Illiberalism of John Stuart Mill] / Morals and the criminal law / Case for Mill -- Value of freedom: Mill's Liberty (1859-1959) / Freedom and individuality: Mill's Liberty in retrospect / Mill on self-regarding actions / Immorality and treason / John Stuart Mill -- Harriet Taylor -- James Fitzjames Stephen -- The Willmoore Kendall -- Maurice Cowling -- Patrick Devlin -- Albert William Levi -- David Spitz -- C. L. Ten -- H. L. A. Har Sources and backgrounds -- The An The The The The
John Stuart Mill (1806 1873) is the most important of Britain s nineteenth-century philosophers. His writings and activities were many and varied. The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span, from 1859 to 1869. "On Liberty "(1859), "Considerations on Representative Government" (1861), "Utilitarianism" (1863), and "The Subjection of Women" (1869) are four of his most famous works; they are central pillars on which Mill s high reputation rests. Also included for the light they shed on Mill and his times are two of his lesser-known works The Contest in America (1862), written in the context of the American Civil War; and his erudite but accessible "Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews" (1867). Mill contributed to several contemporary debates, including ones about where to draw the proper boundaries between the liberty of the individual on one hand and the security of the state on the other. Living as we do in a world where those boundaries continue to be tested and contested, Mill s timeless writings are of no less value to us today than they were to those who read them when they were first published.
0393092526
Liberty
JC585.M55 1975
On liberty : annotated text sources and background criticism / John Stuart Mill ; edited by David Spitz. - First edition. A norton critical edition. - xi, 260 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index.
Annotated text of on liberty -- Of the liberty of thought and discussion -- Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being -- Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual -- Applications -- [Writing of "On liberty"] / [Early essay on toleration] / Criticism -- Case against Mill -- Mill on liberty -- [Mill's fallacies] / "Open society" and its fallacies / [Illiberalism of John Stuart Mill] / Morals and the criminal law / Case for Mill -- Value of freedom: Mill's Liberty (1859-1959) / Freedom and individuality: Mill's Liberty in retrospect / Mill on self-regarding actions / Immorality and treason / John Stuart Mill -- Harriet Taylor -- James Fitzjames Stephen -- The Willmoore Kendall -- Maurice Cowling -- Patrick Devlin -- Albert William Levi -- David Spitz -- C. L. Ten -- H. L. A. Har Sources and backgrounds -- The An The The The The
John Stuart Mill (1806 1873) is the most important of Britain s nineteenth-century philosophers. His writings and activities were many and varied. The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span, from 1859 to 1869. "On Liberty "(1859), "Considerations on Representative Government" (1861), "Utilitarianism" (1863), and "The Subjection of Women" (1869) are four of his most famous works; they are central pillars on which Mill s high reputation rests. Also included for the light they shed on Mill and his times are two of his lesser-known works The Contest in America (1862), written in the context of the American Civil War; and his erudite but accessible "Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews" (1867). Mill contributed to several contemporary debates, including ones about where to draw the proper boundaries between the liberty of the individual on one hand and the security of the state on the other. Living as we do in a world where those boundaries continue to be tested and contested, Mill s timeless writings are of no less value to us today than they were to those who read them when they were first published.
0393092526
Liberty
JC585.M55 1975