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"A list of the works of John Stuart Mill": p. xxx.
Classic from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 19th Century, - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: First published in 1861. 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. ...]
Excerpt from Utilitarianism, Liberty Representative Government John Stuart Mill was born in 1806. He was brought up by his father, James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham to carry on the Utilitarian tradition, and after their death he was recognised as the leader, or at least the exponent, of the philosophical Radicals. He was appointed in 1823 to a clerkship in tho India House, where finally he became head of his department in 1856. When the East India Company was abolished in 1857, he refused to accept a position under the re-constituted authority, and retired in the beginning of 1858. In 1865 he was elected Member of Parliament for Westminster, but was not re-elected in 1868. He spent the rest of his life till his death in 1873 in literary and philosophical pursuits. Mill's position at the India House gave him considerable leisure for writing, and his total literary output was very large. But much the greater part of it consisted in reviews and articles for periodicals, mainly for the Westminster Review, and in editing Bentham's or his father's work. Of his more permanent writings, besides the three contained in this volume, the most important are his Logic, published in 1843, the Political Economy, published in 1848, the Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, published in 1865, a treatise on The Subjection of Women, written in 1861 and published in 1869, and three posthumous essays on Nature, The Utility of Religion, and Theism. Of the three works included in this volume. Utilitarianism, Liberty, and Considerations on Representative Government, the second is the most careful and studied expression of Mill's thought. It was planned in 1854 and revised with great care, owing much, as the dedication witnesses, to the cooperation and criticism of his wife. It was published after her death in 1859. It is justly the most famous of all his writings, and contains his most individual and characteristic doctrines. Utilitarianism, compiled from previously written papers, was published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861, and republished in 1863. The Considerations on Representative Government was published in 1861. Mill was brought up in the strictest Utilitarian doctrine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.