‘Over vrijheid’ (1859) is een vurig pleidooi voor de vrijheid om naar eigen inzicht te denken, te spreken en te leven.  Meer

Alle mensen streven naar zo veel mogelijk geluk en geluk is niets anders dan genot en afwezigheid van pijn.  Meer

‘Over zichzelf, over zijn eigen lichaam en geest, is het individu soeverein.’ Zo luiden de bekendste woorden uit John Stuart Mills invloedrijke werk On Liberty, vertaald als Over Vrijheid.  Meer

John Stuart Mill, filosoof, politiek econoom en ‘feminist’, was een van de invloedrijkste denkers van de negentiende eeuw. Zijn Drie essays over godsdienst bieden een uitgebreide en boeiende analyse van het verschijnsel religie.  Meer

Bouwen we een parkeergarage of leggen we een park aan? Willen we meer of minder kerncentrales? Grote maatschappelijke en politieke vraagstukken zijn vaak vragen naar het grootste geluk voor het grootst mogelijk aantal mensen.  Meer

John Stuart Mill is one of the few indisputably "classic" authors in the history of political thought. "On Liberty", first published in 1859, has become celebrated as the most powerful defence of the freedom of the individual, and it is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed.  Meer

Presents two works by the political and social radical English-speaking philosopher. One is regarded as a sacred text of liberalism. The other stresses the importance of equality for the sexes.  Meer

This book combines John Stuart Mill's key writings, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and 'Essay on Bentham', with formative selections from Mill's greatest influences, Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and a discerning introduction written by the renowned ethics scholar Mary Warnock.  Meer

British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806–73) is the author of several essays, including Utilitarianism (1863) - a defence of Jeremy Bentham's principle applied to the field of ethics - and The Subjection of Women (1869), which advocates legal equality between the sexes.  Meer

Reissued here in its corrected second edition of 1864, this essay by John Stuart Mill (1806–73) argues for a utilitarian theory of morality. Originally printed as a series of three articles in Fraser's Magazine in 1861, the work sought to refine the 'greatest happiness' principle that had been championed by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), defending it from common criticisms, and offering a justification of its validity.  Meer

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's 'Utilitarianism' includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder.  Meer

Explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, this title proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms, as long as we cause no harm to others.  Meer

'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. This title includes an essay that dedicated to this 'one very simple principle'.  Meer

Een klassieke analyse van democratie, de ideale staatsvorm en het belang van een kritische burger. In dit monumentale werk uit de politieke filosofie onderzoekt John Stuart Mill de fundamentele vragen van het bestuur: wat is de beste regeringsvorm en hoe zorgen we ervoor dat die succesvol is?  Meer

Containing key texts from such significant figures as * J.S. Mill * Nassau Senior * Henry Sedgwick * Alfred Marshall * J.E. Cairns * J.M. Keynes this set illustrates the gradual transformation of economics from the fully contextualized political economy of the early classical economists to the abstract, deductive theory of neo-classical economics.  Meer

This two-volume work, first published in 1843, was John Stuart Mill's first major book. It reinvented the modern study of logic and laid the foundations for his later work in the areas of political economy, women's rights and representative government.  Meer