{"product_id":"the-basic-writings-of-john-john-stuart-mill-9789395741033","title":"The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism \u0026 Socialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected in this volume are John Stuart Mill's Four seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism and Socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Mill's conception of liberty (from his most famous book, On Liberty) justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Subjection of Women is a passionate defense of the rights of women from the point of view of a man that truly believes in equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Utilitarianism, Mill's major contribution is his argument for the qualitative separation of pleasures, in response to Jeremy Bentham's formulation of utilitarianism: the \"greatest-happiness principle\", which holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness among all sentient beings, within reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Socialism is an early attempt of visualizing a way of putting the Marxist theory into practice. Mill realizes that distributing the wealth onto the proletariat will lead to a state of routine work, where there is neither motivation nor anxiety, not realizing, however, that routine will devoid performance of excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Stuart Mill has been called \"the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Stuart Mill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9395741031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789395741033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sanage Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d","brand":"John Stuart Mill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44129228226815,"sku":"9789395741033","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f20ef05a-7ddc-4003-b659-f0e4c0d2139c.jpg?v=1687462747","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-basic-writings-of-john-john-stuart-mill-9789395741033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}