If one of the central concerns of John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) was to articulate the kind of social conditions in which diverse persons can cultivate their individuality, it seems plausible that ...

British philosopher, economist and political thinker John Stuart Mill was one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. His writings explored individual liberty, morality and the ...

One of the great voices for personal liberty was that of the British economist and political philosopher, John Stuart Mill. His essay, “On Liberty,” though penned well over 150 years ago, is a classic ...

As a branch of analytical philosophy, metaethics explores the status, foundation, and scope of morality. Through this lens we can examine moral claims like those in classical liberalist thought.Two ...

John Stuart Mill’s (1806-1873) father, James Mill, was an outspoken advocate of utilitarianism and a friend of Jeremy Bentham, its founder. John Mill was born into a household steeped in utilitarian ...

John Stuart Mill is a key figure in Nineteenth Century British liberalism. Mill is a giant of liberalism per se, such that subsequent exegesis has been overwhelmingly praiseworthy, indeed idolatrous.

Taylor Mill cut to the heart of issues in political thought such as patriarchy, socio-economic justice and freedom.

I’ve expended a fair amount of ink criticizing John Stuart Mill’s ideas about liberty in his (in)famous 1859 pamphlet “On Liberty.” I think that Mill’s greatest critic, James Fitzjames Stephen, was ...

Since the 1990s, in the wake of humanitarian emergencies, violent civil wars, and terrorist attacks, the tension between the norm of state sovereignty and the need to prevent atrocities has become ...

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