John Stuart Mill

De la liberté est un essai de philosophie de John Stuart Mill paru en 1859. Défendant un libéralisme vigoureux fondé sur le harm principle, le livre a eu une postérité importante dans la tradition libérale. Il a été influencé par les écrits d'auteurs allemands comme Goethe et Humboldt. Comptant indubitablement parmi …

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with …

On Liberty has become celebrated as the most powerful defence of the freedom of the individual, and is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed. The Subjection of Women is a powerful indictment of the political, social, and economic position of women. This …

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favour of equality between the sexes. At the time it was published in 1869, this essay was an affront to European conventional norms for the status of men and …