The United States was founded on the importance of civil liberties--protections for the individual against the control of others, whether those are other people or the government. Freedom for each person is a cornerstone of Western society. John Stuart Mill's thoughts on liberty and the concept of f[...]

A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. As a journal[...]

'The object of the Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progre[...]

How can the individual be both free and happy? What are freedom and happiness and how do they relate to each other? These are the questions that Mill aims to answer from both a political and a philosophical perspective.[...]

John Stuart Mill er den socialliberale samfundstænker, der i det 19. århundrede evnede at forbinde Ricardos fundamentalistiske liberalisme og de praktiske forhold i den britiske økonomi. Han ønskede at fremme politisk frihed og økonomisk velstand for alle samfundsborgere.

Der er ove[...]

Ett glödande och vältaligt försvar för den individuella friheten, så långt den är förenlig med andras frihet. Bokens huvudsyfte är att ange de faror som följer i demokratins spår och visa hur man skall skydda sig mot dem. Mill definierar regeringsmaktens uppgifter och begränsningarna fö[...]

J. S. Millin (1806-1837) moraalifilosofinen pääteos Utilitarismi on yksi länsimaisen eettisen ajattelun merkkipaaluista. Se tarjoaa klassisen filosofisen muotoilun näkemyksestä, että tekojen moraalinen arvo määräytyy niiden tuottaman onnellisuuden tai hyvinvoinnin mukaan ja että onnellisuu[...]

John Stuart Mill writing on politics and government are one of the cornerstones of modern political writing. On Liberty is highly regarded as a classic text, and as Bertrand Russell so well phrased, "the present world would be better than it is, if Mill's principles were more respected." On Libert[...]