John Stuart Mill

20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873

An English philosopher, economist and Member of Parliament, the most influential liberal thinker of the Victorian age. His books include A System of Logic (1843), Principles of Political Economy (1848), On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1863), The Subjection of Women (1869) and his Autobiography (1873).

works

1859

On Liberty

Mill’s essay on the nature and limits of the power that society may rightly exercise over the individual, first published in 1859 and dedicated to the memory of his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill: a defence of free thought…

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