This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ranging from his treatise on logic to his personal correspondence. In these...

Born in London in 1806 into a pedigree of intellect, and educated at the knee of his father, the Scottish philosopher James Mill, John Stuart Mill became one of the 19th century's most influential writers on economics and social...

Mill vertrat die Ansicht, dass der Einzelne frei sein sollte, das zu tun, was er will, solange er anderen keinen Schaden zufügt. Er erklärte:Der einzige Zweck, zu dem die Menschheit, einzeln oder kollektiv, berechtigt ist, in die...

Mills Hauptwerk zur politischen Demokratie, Erwägungen zur Repräsentativ-Regierungsform (Considerations on Representative Government), verteidigt zwei Grundprinzipien: die umfassende Beteiligung der Bürger und die aufgeklärte Kompetenz...

Edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "the acknowledged heirs of the founders of utilitarianism" (Jeff McMahan), the Norton Library edition of Utilitarianism features the complete text of the seventh (1879) edition,...

The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced...