John Stuart: 227 books

L'opera che presentiamo, scritta tra il 1854 e il 1857, rappresenta un classico del pensiero politico e come tutti i classici solleva una serie di riflessioni e problemi e al contempo un intenso dibattito critico e controversie mai sopite. Questo classico del liberalismo propone un'analisi lucida...

Influenzato dalle idee femministe della moglie Harriet Taylor, Mill scrisse nel 1869 La servitu delle donne, in cui rivendica la parita dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che cio migliorera anche gli uomini, i quali smetteranno di sentirsi superiori solo per il...

Je me propose, dans cet essai, d’expliquer aussi clairement que possible les raisons sur lesquelles repose une opinion que j’ai embrassée dès que mes premières convictions sur les questions sociales et politiques se sont formées, et qui, bien loin de s’affaiblir et de se modifier par la...

Depuis quelque temps, on a beaucoup parlé en Angle. terre et sur le continent du Positivisme et de la Philosophie Positive. Ces expressions qui, pendant la vie de l’éminent penseur qui leur a donné cours, ne s’étaient fait jour dans d’autres écrits ni dans d’autres débats que ceux du...

In Considerations on Representative Government, Mill puts forward his preference for a compromise between a government of the few on the one hand, and a government of the masses on the other. In this masterpiece of political theory, Mill explores all aspects of modern government, including voting, local government, federal governments, second chambers, good government and more.

There is as great diversity among authors in the modes which they have adopted of defining logic, as in their treatment of the details of it. This is what might naturally be expected on any subject on which writers have availed themselves of the same language as a means of delivering different ideas....

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: One thing there is, which if it could be affirmed truly, would relieve social institutions from any share in the responsibility of these evils. Since the human race has no means of enjoyable existence,...

Extrait : "Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l'état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c'est le peu de progrès qu'a fait la discussion sur le critérium du bien et du mal."

The book presents the concept of representative government, the ideal form of government. Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy.

It is so much the established practice of writers on logic to commence their treatises by a few general observations (in most cases, it is true, rather meagre) on Terms and their varieties, that it will, perhaps, scarcely be required from me in merely following the common usage, to be as particular...

Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès qu’a fait la discussion sur le critérium du bien et du mal....

Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès qu’a fait la discussion sur le critérium...

Ungewöhnlich für seine Zeit und wahrscheinlich beeinflusst durch seine spätere Frau Harriet Taylor Mill, vertrat Mill feministische Ansichten. 1865 wurde er als Vertreter der Gesellschaft für das Frauenwahlrecht ins Parlament gewählt. In seinem 1869 erschienenen Werk The Subjection of Women lässt...

The Australian Exploration Anthology features the first-hand personal accounts of the explorers: Captain William Dampier, Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders, John McDouall Stuart, John McKinlay and William Wills. This book charts the history of the exploration of the vast continent of Australia...