The basic writings of John Stuart Mill
Contains three of John Stuart Mill's most popular writings: "On Liberty", "The Subjection of Women", and "Utilitarianism".
The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill's three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. A brilliant defense of individual right…
Contains three of John Stuart Mill's most popular writings: "On Liberty", "The Subjection of Women", and "Utilitarianism."
Tests the views and metaphor of 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick against a variety of contemporary views on ethics, determining that they are defensible and thus providing a defense of objectivism in ethics and of hedonistic utilitarianism.
David Phillips aims in Sidgwickian Ethics to do something that has (surprisingly) not been done before: to interpret and evaluate the central argument of the Methods of Ethics, in a way that brings out the important conceptual and historical connections between Sidgwick's views …