Utilitarianism · liberalism · 1806–1873
John Stuart Mill
Protect the freedom to think and live differently.
London · Avignon
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Testing the harm principle
Follow how On Liberty limits coercion by law and by opinion, and examine where its exceptions and boundaries lie.
On LibertyWeighing happiness
Reconstruct the greatest happiness principle and the distinction between higher and lower pleasures in Utilitarianism.
UtilitarianismArguing for equality
Examine how The Subjection of Women challenges custom, claims about nature and the marriage laws of its time.
The Subjection of Women