John Stuart Mill

Das BuchWer sich ernsthaft mit Fragen nach Begriff, Formen und Rechtfertigung politischer Herrschaft auseinandersetzen will, kommt nicht umhin, die wesentlichen Texte der staatsphilosophischen Klassiker zu studieren. Ihre Entwürfe haben die politische Wirklichkeit in Ost und West bis in die...

IntroductionFrom the moment of its first publication in 1848, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy established itself as a classic. For almost half a century, and long after many of its component ideas had been controverted, it had...

OF COMMONWEALTHTHOMAS HOBBESchapter xviiOf the Causes, Generations, and Definition of a Commonwealthn-i.The final cause, end, or design of men who naturally love liberty and dominion over others, in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves in which we see them live in commonwealths, is...

INTRODUCTION On the received and conventional view, John Stuart Mill is an eclectic and transitional thinker, who is never able either to endorse or to abandon the classical utilitarian philosophy he inherited from his father, James Mill, and whose wridngs implement no research programme,...

Editor's Introduction The history of modem democracy is studded with examples of conflict between two core values we prize: majority rule and minority liberty. The most searing examples of such conflict in American history have revolved around the issue of race: the imposition of the end to...

Editor's Introduction The history of modem democracy is studded with examples of conflict between two core values we prize: majority rule and minority liberty. The most searing examples of such conflict in American history have revolved around the issue of race: the imposition of the end to...