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 ...

History of Political Thought, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn 2006), pp. 487-504 (18 pages) This article examines the arguments used by Robert Watts, a contemporary of John Stuart Mill, in his criticism of ...

L'utilitarisme de Bentham transforme profondément la doctrine antérieure de la liberté de parole en la mettant au service de la recherche de la vérité et en réfléchissant à la portée du contrôle ...

One philosophical theory that can be used to support preemptive and forced evacuation during natural disasters is utilitarianism, specifically the principle of the greatest good for the greatest ...

Amid the sooty London fog of the mid 1800s, John Stuart Mill was a rare feminist. His most famous work, “On Liberty”, championed “giving full freedom to human nature”, yet it was his essay, “The ...