This essay explores Mill’s discussion of possible tensions between liberty and harm to others, especially in the context of ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Stuart Mill is a key figure in Nineteenth Century British liberalism. Mill is a giant of liberalism per se, such that subsequent exegesis has been overwhelmingly praiseworthy, indeed idolatrous.

IN the summer of 1834, the party of political reformers in England ” who thought themselves, and were called by their friends, the philosophic Radicals ” came to the conclusion that the importance of ...

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