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On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) John Stuart Mill , Edited by Mark Philp , Edited by Frederick Rosen


it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings

Mills 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 they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty, the basic principles of ethics, the benefits and
the costs of representative institutions, and the central importance of gender equality in society.

These essays are central to the liberal tradition, but their interpretation and how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious. In their introduction Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mills other works, and argue that his conviction in the importance of the development of human character in its full diversity provides the core to his liberalism and to any defensible account of the value of liberalism to the modern world.

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Product details

Format Paperback | 608 pages
Dimensions 133 x 196 x 28mm | 418g
Publication date 18 Apr 2016
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Revised
Edition Statement 2nd Revised edition
ISBN10 0199670803
ISBN13 9780199670802
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