Stuart Mills

Hommage à John Stuart Mill

Nineteenth-Century Britain (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

These photographs were taken by Penny over half term. She visited Avignon and found the graves of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill.

John Stuart Mill, “Negro Cocaine Fiends” and Contemporary Drugs Policy.

26h (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. – John Stuart Mill. On Liberty. Of the 1st of July [...]

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

Anti-Dismal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Mill makes a basic point which the government should consider much more deeply and often: The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle...

John Stuart Mill and the Dangers to Liberty

EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

Richard Ebeling emails:This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of John Stuart Mill's famous essay "On Liberty."With the growth of Big Government over even more of our life, I thought it would be useful to remember and reflect on Mill's warnings of the various types of tyranny that can threaten our freedom, and to emphasize more than Mill did the...

• John Stuart Mill's Essay "On Liberty" -- It's 150th Birthday - Mises Economics Blog

John Stuart Mill's Essay "On Liberty" -- It's 150th Birthday

Mises Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of John Stuart Mill's famous essay "On Liberty." With the growth of Big Government over even more of our life, it is useful to remember and reflect on Mill's warnings...

Face to faith: We should all celebrate the 150th anniversary of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, says Andrew Copson

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

We should all celebrate the 150th anniversary of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty This year is being celebrated as Charles Darwin's year – the bicentenary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species . But 1859 saw the publication of a work just as influential and worthy of celebration, the contents of which are arguably more in danger of being forgotten by us...

John Stuart Mill symposium – Saturday 14 November, LSE, London

Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1859, the great Liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill published his most important and enduring work, On Liberty. Used today as the symbol of office of the President of the Liberal Democrats, On Liberty emphatically vindicated individual moral autonomy and celebrated the importance of originality and dissent. It set [...]

The crime of inaction | Vittorio Buffachi

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

... and did nothing to stop this crime, or to bring the paedophiles to justice. In On Liberty , John Stuart Mill addressed the question of the evil effects of certain inactions or omissions, with characteristic clarity: "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." The evil...

All About Eve

Risky Regencies (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... in a world that is better for me than it was for them. Here's a few: Martin Luther King, Jr. John Stuart Mill Mahatma Gandhi Nelson Mandela Betty Freidan Gloria Steinam Rachel Carson Hannah Arendt Ellie Weisel Louis Pasteur Alexander Fleming Elizabeth Blackwell The men and women of our Armed Forces. I may not agree with how we got there, but thank you for serving our country. Pumpkin...

Whole Food Founder's Economics Reading List

EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

During a Reason TV interview Whole Foods entrepreneur John Mackey, when asked to list his libertarian influences, includes Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises.Interviewer Gillespie then asks, “How did you come across Mises? Because he’s, even today, among a lot of libertarians, he’s fairly obscure. Do you remember how you kind of stumbled...

• Mises Is ‘Fairly Obscure’? - The LRC Blog

Autonomy: it’s just not for killing

Marginalized Action Dinosaur (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Autonomy: it’s just not for killing Sane Conservatism is a new blog that is worthy of your consideration. Today’s topic: euthanasia. The most common argument in favor of euthanasia is an appeal to choice. The philosophical presupposition to this argument is the harm principle which was articulated by the philosopher John Stuart Mill. This is the well [...]

Autonomy: it's just not for killing

BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Sane Conservatism is a new blog that is worthy of your consideration. Today's topic: euthanasia. The most common argument in favor of euthanasia is an appeal to choice. The philosophical presupposition to this argument is the harm principle which was articulated by the philosopher John Stuart Mill. This is the well worn adage that you should be free to do whatever you want as long as...

Health-care is not a right - it's "hay and a barn for human cattle"

<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

... of speech and religion and the right to property can be clearly defined in accordance with John Stuart Mill’s harm principle—act as you will so long as you do not directly harm others. In contrast, the expansive “rights” demanded by liberals—like the right to “affordable health care” or to a “decent standard of living”—are...

Cameron's 'big society' and the challenge to liberals

Simon Goldie (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

... opportunity to develop ideas if one goes back to first principles: Adam Smith, John Locke and John Stuart Mill. This narrative would say that the liberal vision is people running their lives not government trying to shape how they run their lives by replacing one big thing with another.

Hmm. Sheep and goats?

Christianity-is-not-leftwing (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." John Stuart Mill.