约翰·斯图尔特·密尔

《論自由》出版於1859年，作者是約翰·斯圖爾特·穆勒。《論自由》被譽為「肯定人類個體的個性不可泯滅的價值最優雅，意義最重大，影響最為深遠的宣言」，雖然對它的解讀從出版時就一直處於辯論和爭議之中。自由主義的政治理論方面，約翰·洛克的《政府論》闡述了自由主義原則關於政府的根本宣言，即「政府必須建立在被治理者的同意之上」；自由主義讓人們自行追求他們的個人利益，系統闡述其經濟上的益處，要歸功於亞當·斯密的《國富論》。然而如果現代世界要承認某一本書設定了自由主義的根本道德基礎，這本書很可能是《論自由》。 …

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 …