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John Stuart Mill

"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."[On Liberty]

Encyclopedia Entries

John Stuart Mill Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
John Stuart Mill Oxford Companion to Philosophy
John Stuart Mill Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
John Stuart Mill Encyclopedia Britannica
John Stuart Mill Encarta
John Stuart Mill Wikipedia

Questions of 

progress through calculating the effects of actions to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number

Readings

Kai Nielsen: Against Moral Conservatism    (10)
John Rawls: Two Concepts of Rules    (10)
J L Mackie: The Ethics of Fantasy       (12)
J S Mill: Utilitarianism     (46)

Writings

A System of Logic John Stuart Mill Marxists.org
Autobiography John Stuart Mill Bjorn's site
Autobiography John Stuart Mill Bartleby
Autobiography John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Bentham John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 4Literature.net
Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
Essay on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy (PDF) John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
On Liberty John Stuart Mill  
On Liberty John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
On Liberty John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism.com
On Liberty John Stuart Mill Modern History Sourcebook
On Liberty John Stuart Mill 4Literature.net
On Liberty John Stuart Mill Bartleby
On Liberty John Stuart Mill Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On Liberty (PDF) John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
On Nature John Stuart Mill Marxists.org
On Nature John Stuart Mill Lancaster Univ.
On Nature John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill The Library of Economics and Liberty
Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Representative Government (PDF) John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment John Stuart Mill Ethics Update site
The English Utilitarians: John Stuart Mill Leslie Stephen Archive for the History of Economic Thought
The Logic of the Moral Sciences (A System of Logic, Book VI) John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Archive for the History of Economic Thought
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Liberty Library
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Modern History Sourcebook
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 4Literature.net
The Utility of Religion John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
Three Essays on Religion John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism.com
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Vintage Mill
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Marxists.org
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 4Literature.net
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Philosophy for Everyone

 

Commentary

JS Mill Snapshot

Ziniewicz on Mill's Utilitarianism

Quotations


I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. [Letter]


''It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.''
[Utilitarianism]


''The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.''
[On Liberty]


''The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.''
[The Subjection of Women]


''The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.''
[On Liberty]


''War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.''
[The Contest in America]

Bibliography

The Autobiography and On Liberty are both published by Penguin.
Utilitarianism and Representative Government are available in Everyman.
Recommended commentaries include Alan Ryan, The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill;
William Thomas,Mill  (Pastmasters);
F R Berger, Happiness, Justice and Freedom;
Wendy Donner The Liberal Self.