Knihy od: Mill, J. S.

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks...

Collected here in a single volume On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain relevant today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits...

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill´s great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. His answers to policy questions are still highly relevant today, and Riley´s introduction clarifies his distinctive liberal utilitarian philosophy.