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Alan S Kahan
Liberalism is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define
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John Stuart Mill
Presents two works by the political and social radical English-speaking philosopher. One is regarded as a sacred text of liberalism. The other stresses the importance of equality for the sexes…
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Alan Kahan
This treatise links three 19th-century philosophers in a single intellectual and ideological tradition by identifying similarities in their thought. The author of this work also attempts to correct prevalent misconceptions…
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This treatise links three 19th-century philosophers in a single intellectual and ideological tradition by identifying similarities in their thought. The author also attempts to correct prevalent misconceptions about 19th-century liberalism.
Alan Ryan
Alan Ryan demonstrates that John Stuart Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful…
Alan Ryan demonstrates that Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful in offering…
John Stuart Mill,Alan Kahan
This new edition of On Liberty is the first to combine John Stuart Mill’s influential work with a set of relevant primary sources by Mill and his contemporaries. Alan Kahan’s…
The textual introduction, by John M. Robson, examines the treatise in context of Mill’s life in the 1860s, outlines its composition, and discusses, among other matters, the importance of the…
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Jeremy Bentham,John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for ‘the greatest happiness…
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