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 ...

The article is here; from the Introduction: John Stuart Mill continues to stir trouble in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is Mill's liberal legacy more fiercely contested than in academia, where ...

John Stuart Mill is a study in contrasts. He wrote On Liberty, yet many of his ideas and theories promoted anything but liberty.

Most people know of John Stuart Mill as a philosopher, but for three years he was also an MP. Helen McCabe records a ...

In today's political culture, libertarianism has begun to take on new life. As such, I thought I would go back and read On Liberty and see how the ideas there in would compare to today's. In "Chapter ...

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 ...

Project to digitise and publish his marginalia online will allow scholars to see his cutting remarks on Ralph Waldo Emerson Despite writing a shelf-full of books, including his own autobiography, the ...

All good arguments should seem to state the obvious. John Stuart Mill's eloquent essay The Subjection of Women manages this 140 years after publication. His language is so precise and his logic so ...

BORN MAY 20, 1806; DIED MAY 8, 1873 THOUGH it has not been the custom among specialists to regard Mr. John Stuart Mill as a scientific man, yet we venture to say that he has not left behind him in ...