On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, 2nd Edition, 9780199670802
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Explore freedom, ethics, government, and equality in Mill’s timeless essays.

On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, 2nd Edition

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    608 pages

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    22 July 2015

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Summary

‘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 regimes – whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century, tackling as th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199670802
ISBN-10:0199670803
Author:John Stuart Mill, Mark Philp, Frederick Rosen
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:608
Edition:2nd
Release Date:22 July 2015
Weight:418g
Dimensions:196mm x 133mm x 28mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

John Stuart Mill

Edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen.

Mark Philp is Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. His recent books include Political Conduct (Harvard UP, 2007) and Reforming Ideas in Britain (CUP, 2013). For Oxford World’s Classics he has edited Paine’s Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings and Godwin’s An Enquiry concerning Political Justice.

Frederick Rosen taught for many years at University College London, where he directed the Bentham Project, which will publish a corrected edition of the complete works of Jeremy Bentham. His recent books include Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill (Routledge, 2003) and Mill (OUP, 2013).

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