《On Liberty and Utilitarianism》是1993年Bantam Classics出版的圖書，作者是John Stuart Mill。
基本介紹
- 書名：On Liberty and Utilitarianism
- 作者：John Stuart Mill
- 出版社：Bantam Classics
- 出版時間：1993年1月1日
- 頁數：240 頁
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780553214147
內容簡介
Together, these two essays mark the philosophic cornerstone of democratic morality and represent a thought-provoking search for the true balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state.Thoroughly schooled in the principles of the utilitarian movement founded by Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill nevertheless brings his own unique intellectual energy to issues such individual freedom, equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. On Liberty is Mill's famous examination of the nature of individuality and its crucial role in any social system that expected to remain creative and vital.Utilitarian brilliantly expounds a pragmatic ethic based on one controversial proposition:actions are right only if they promote the common good and wrong if they do not.While much of Mill's thinking was eventually adopted by socialists, it is in today's democratic societies--with their troubling issues of crime, freedom of speech, and the boundaries of personal liberty--that his work resounds most powerfully
