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John Stuart Mill, a renowned 19th-century philosopher and political economist, by "A System of Logic-1" as a seminal book. Some stories are violent and strange, while others creep up on you and slowly imbibe you in. This version of "A System of Logic vol-1" is both modern and readable, with a striking new cover and a beautifully typeset manuscript. The story is full of unexpected twists and turns that will keep the reader engaged. The work of this author has been recognized as one of the most influential contributions to logic and philosophy of its time. In "A System of Logic vol-1" Mill dives into the fundamentals of inductive reasoning and the scientific method. He presents a methodical method for learning logic, emphasizing the use of actual evidence and experimentation as the foundation for developing general principles and drawing conclusions. Mill''s work aided in the advancement of modern empirical investigation. Mill''s theory is strongly reliant on the concepts of "methods of agreement" and "difference," both of which are essential in showing causality and correlations between variables in a scientific research. He also looks into the roles of deductive and inductive reasoning, stressing its advantages and disadvantages. Mill''s writing is notable for its clarity and precision, making complex philosophical concepts understandable to a broad audience.

John Stuart Mill''s book Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser''s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863.

The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill - John Stuart Mill wrote the revolutionary essay The Subjection of Women with notes that it was strongly influenced by his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill. Modern scholars have questioned the legacy that husband constructed for wife in which he has been accused of making exorbitant claims about her intelligence and influence. Despite that revisionist approach, however, The Subjection of Women strongly resembles in both content and character an essay titled The Enfranchisement of Women published by Harriet in 1851. In that essay, she argued in favor of a utilitarian approach to equality which asserted the presence of hostility toward women kept them subjugated at all levels of society. The Subjection of Women was published by in 1869.The Subjection of Women is notable for situating John Stuart Mill at the forefront of the developing notion of a feminist movement. Not exactly called that, those who were daring enough to suggest that women could be the intellectual equal of men were viewed as profoundly radical in their thinking at best and dangerously delusional at worst.Over the course of four chapters, Mill carefully delineates his argument for an innate equality existing between the sexes and then goes on to suggest that this innate equality is being stifled by denial of access to education. Mill also calls on reform to change existing social structures. Overlaying all this a fundamental appeal to the simple morality of the issue. Indeed, Mill makes an caustic appeal to intellectual evil of the immorality of subjugating women as second class citizens due the prejudicial limitations of birth and birth alone.It is within the realm of morality that Mills essay take attains level of truly revolutionary literature. While raising irrefutable scientific points, the appeal cuts most deeply in his assertion that subjection of women is a systemic choice based on scientific ignorance, but also willful disregard of empirical evidence.

On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill''s ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state.Mill suggests standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of utilitarianism. Furthermore, Mill asserts that democratic ideals may result in the tyranny of the majority. Among the standards proposed are Mill''s three basic liberties of individuals, his three legitimate objections to government intervention, and his two maxims regarding the relationship of the individual to society.

John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty" was first published in 1859. In the 21st century this text confirms Socrates’ claim that "it is only the life of true philosophy that scorns the life of political ambition" (Plato’s Republic, 521). Mill’s thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative, liberal, and radical politicians. The life of true philosophy stands outside the political battles that are rampant in society and seeks the political wisdom that is necessary for a good life in any age. "On Liberty" should be read alongside the classic documents that declare the basic nature and importance of human freedom and liberty such as the "U.S. Declaration of Independence" (1776), the French "Rights of Man" (1789), "The Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention" (1848), and the "United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (1948). When the officials of any government seek to change the laws that regulate individual liberty or when rhetoricians seek to change public opinion about what individuals should or should not be allowed to say or do, Mill’s "On Liberty" serves as an antidote to the poisons of excessive intrusion into the lives of individuals. Mill was born in London, the son of James Mill, a Scotsman who came to England and joined with Jeremy Bentham to develop utilitarianism. Today John Stuart Mill is also known as one of the major proponents of utilitarianism, but the depth of his philosophical thinking goes far beyond the disputes among ethical theorists. In spite of his criticism of some aspects of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy, his ethical position eventually embraces Kant’s most basic concepts: autonomy and universality. Mill contributed to logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, economics, psychology, politics, and ethics. He was also an early proponent of the rights of women.

The Squashed edition of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Rigorously educated by his father James Mill (the co-founder (with Jeremy Bentham) of Utilitarianism) John Stuart grew to suffer horrid depression over an upbringing which had forced classical literature, logic, political economy, history and mathematics down him before he was fourteen. He lived modestly as a clerk to the East India Company, but wrote profusely on political and philosophical matters. In Utilitarianism he states that actions are right if they bring about happiness and wrong if they bring the reverse. In On Liberty, written with his beloved wife, who died before its completion, he moved away from the Utilitarian notion that individual liberty was necessary for economic and governmental efficiency and advanced the classical defense of individual freedom as a value in itself. Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable quotes and all the famous lines, but neatly honed down to the length of a readable short story. "Like reading the bible without all the begats" - Prof. Jim Curtis

“Tornar feliz a vida humana, tanto no sentido comparativamente humilde de prazer e ausência de dor, como no sentido mais elevado de tornar a vida, não aquilo que ela é agora quase universalmente, algo pueril e insignificante, mas tal como podem desejá-la seres humanos com faculdades plenamente desenvolvidas”: este o ideal que inspira John Stuart Mill e que torna instigante e enigmática a sua formulação da ética utilitarista. Educado para ser o porta-voz das ideias de Jeremy Bentham, a influência de valores românticos como a imaginação e a emoção, atenuou, entretanto, o frio rigor analítico da formação inicial de Stuart Mill. O utilitarismo expressa essa tensão, defendendo o anseio da doutrina utilitarista pela “maior felicidade do maior número”, mas alterando o seu significado. Como observou Norberto Bobbio ao tratar das relações entre Ética e Política o utilitarismo é, no campo do pensamento ocidental, provavelmente a última grande tentativa de construção de uma moral universal. O utilitarismo teve em Bentham (1748-1832) a sua primeira grande formulação. É de Bentham que John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) parte neste livro, ao afirmar que “a Utilidade ou o Princípio de Maior Felicidade, como fundamento da moral, sustenta que as ações estão certas na medida em que elas tendem a promover a felicidade e erradas quando tendem a produzir o contrário de felicidade. Por felicidade entende-se prazer e ausência de dor, por infelicidade, dor e privação de prazer”. No entanto, Stuart Mill diferencia-se de Bentham na sua exegese do que é felicidade, pois para ele o prazer não se restringe ao quantitativo do comensurável pela duração e intensidade. Abrange o qualitativo dos prazeres inferiores e superiores pois, na sua concepção de vida, estão presentes não apenas o racionalismo à maneira de Bentham mas as percepções da complexidade da alma humana, realçadas pelo romantismo. Como sublinhou Isaiah Berlin, para Stuart Mill o fundamental é a afirmação da capacidade do Ser humano de exercer a liberdade, escolhendo e decidindo entre o bem e o mal. Na escolha entre o certo e o errado, a tônica do utilitarismo não é o da análise do ser virtuoso mas a da consequência das ações. Por isso, teve e tem impacto na teoria da decisão coletiva, ao buscar imprimir às políticas públicas um sentido de direção, voltado para o bem-estar da sociedade. E por esta razão, que desde Bentham, o utilitarismo está associado ao reformismo e ao progresso. Com efeito, o utilitarismo, como realça Stuart Mill, não é um egoísmo ético. Está voltado para eliminar os males do mundo, a começar pelo sofrimento da pobreza. O critério não é a felicidade do agente mas a multiplicação da felicidade na maior escala possível. O utilitarismo de Stuart Mill é um livro instigante, de um grande e íntegro pensador. A este livro, superiormente traduzido e apresentado por Alexandre Braga Massella e tão oportuno na discussão da agenda contemporânea, o público brasileiro passa a ter acesso nesta primorosa edição da Iluminuras. Celso Lafer

On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill''s ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state.Mill suggests standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of utilitarianism. Furthermore, Mill asserts that democratic ideals may result in the tyranny of the majority. Among the standards proposed are Mill''s three basic liberties of individuals, his three legitimate objections to government intervention, and his two maxims regarding the relationship of the individual to society.

Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. Written by political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill, the essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser''s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. The essay provides support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory and defends it against a wide range of criticisms and misunderstandings. Though heavily criticized both in Mill''s lifetime and in the years since, Utilitarianism has been credited with popularizing utilitarian ethics and is considered the most influential philosophical articulation of a liberal humanistic morality that was produced in the nineteenth century.

Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill, is an essay written to provide support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory, and to respond to misconceptions about it. Mill defines utilitarianism as a theory based on the principle that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Mill defines happiness as pleasure and the absence of pain. He argues that pleasure can differ in quality and quantity, and that pleasures that are rooted in one''s higher faculties should be weighted more heavily than baser pleasures. Furthermore, Mill argues that people''s achievement of goals and ends, such as virtuous living, should be counted as part of their happiness.

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor Mill in 1869stating an argument in favour of equality between the sexes. At the time it was published in 1869, this essay was an affront to European conventional norms for the status of men and women. As it is said in the book, "The purpose of this book is to maintain the claim of women, whether in marriage or out of it, to perfect equality in all rights with the male sex." John Stuart Mill, "The Subjection of Women" (1869)

It seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to the public as a narrative or as being connected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable, and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught, and well taught, in those early years which, in the common modes of what is called instruction, are little better than wasted. It has also seemed to me that in an age of transition in opinions, there may be somewhat both of interest and of benefit in noting the successive phases of any mind which was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of others. But a motive which weighs more with me than either of these, is a desire to make acknowledgment of the debts which my intellectual and moral development owes to other persons; some of them of recognised eminence, others less known than they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not interest, has only himself to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India. My father, the son of a petty tradesman and (I believe) small farmer, at Northwater Bridge, in the county of Angus, was, when a boy, recommended by his abilities to the notice of Sir John Stuart, of Fettercairn, one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and was, in consequence, sent to the University of Edinburgh, at the expense of a fund established by Lady Jane Stuart (the wife of Sir John Stuart) and some other ladies for educating young men for the Scottish Church. He there went through the usual course of study, and was licensed as a Preacher, but never followed the profession; having satisfied himself that he could not believe the doctrines of that or any other Church. For a few years he was a private tutor in various families in Scotland, among others that of the Marquis of Tweeddale, but ended by taking up his residence in London, and devoting himself to authorship. Nor had he any other means of support until 1819, when he obtained an appointment in the India House.

John Stuart Mill''s book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser''s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill''s lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism contains Mill''s only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.

There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools, carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato''s dialogue be grounded on a real conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular morality of the so-called sophist.

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this Broadview Edition, Colin Heydt provides a substantial introduction that will enable readers to understand better the polemical context for Utilitarianism. Heydt shows, for example, how Mill’s moral philosophy grew out of political engagement, rather than exclusively out of a speculative interest in determining the nature of morality. Appendices include precedents to Mill’s work, reactions to Utilitarianism, and related writings by Mill.

Utilitarianism, the best known branch of consequentialist ethics, was popularized by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill in the 18th and 19th centuries. This book maintains that ethics primarily depend on the consequences of one''s behavior rather that the values one holds. Thus values are ethical insofar as these values produce desirable outcomes.

Presents the text of four essays by nineteenth-century English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill, and includes textual and explanatory notes, chronology, and introduction.

This revised 1866 second edition presents Mill''s discussion of the positivist views of French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857).

Utilitarianism, by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, is one of his most influential works and is a philosophical defense of utilitarian ethical theory. This publication remained a relevant publication since its original publication in the mid 19th century, as is still relevant in the application of utility in regard to social policy. This is an important work for those studying the concept of utilitarianism, or those who are interested in the writings of John Stuart Mill.