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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction In Commemoration of the Birth of James Mill and the Death of His Son John Stuart Mill -- Part I Cultivation and Education -- 1 John Stuart Mill and the Stationary State -- 1.1 Introduction: Mill's Relevance Today -- 1.2 The Concept Before Mill -- 1.3 Mill's Stationary State -- 1.4 The Reception of the Concept -- 1.5 The Question of Motive -- 1.6 William Morris as a Disciple of J.S. Mill -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 James and John Stuart Mill On Education -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background: From Hobbes to Helvetius -- 2.3 James Mill -- 2.4 John Stuart Mill -- 2.5 Individual Genius -- Notes -- References -- Part II Utilitarianism -- 3 The Felicific Calculus and the Art of Life According to James and John Stuart Mill -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 From the Origin and Perfectibility of Calculation … -- 3.2.1 Pleasure, the Sovereign Master of Humanity -- 3.2.2 From Sensations to Ideas, From a Difference of Degree to a Difference in Nature -- 3.2.3 Like the Idea, the Felicific Calculus Is Perfectible -- 3.3 … to the Art of Calculation -- 3.3.1 Morality as an Attribute of Calculation -- 3.3.2 The Advantage of Calculation -- 3.3.3 The Aesthetics of Calculation, Towards an Unconscious Calculation? -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 John Stuart Mill, Sidgwick, and the Philosophical Foundations of Political Economy -- 4.1 Economics and Philosophy -- 4.2 Mill and Altruistic Humanity -- 4.3 Sidgwick and Ethical Dualism -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III International Relations and Trade -- 5 John Stuart Mill On Britain's Dependencies: Focusing On Its Military Expenditure in the Nineteenth Century.

1. The Milllian philosophy -- 2. The analysis of language -- 3. Verbal propositions and apparent interference -- 4. The justification of deduction -- 5. Empiricism in logic and mathematics -- 6. Induction and inductivism -- 7. Induction, perception and consciousness -- 8. The logic of the moral sciences -- 9. Utilitarianism -- 10. Liberty.

chapter I Self-culture, the Eclectic Stance and Toryism -- chapter II Romantic and Utilitarian -- chapter III Science and the Authority of the Instructed -- chapter IV Laissez-faire' Socialism and Future Society -- chapter V Liberty and Individuality -- chapter VI Government' Bureaucracy and Voting.

In der bei den rororo-Monographien üblichen Gestaltungsweise mit einer Mischung von Biographie, Werkanalyse, Quellen- und viel Bildmaterial wird in diesem Band Leben und Werk des englischen Sozialphilosophen und Nationalökonomen John Stuart Mill (1806-1879) behandelt. Gaulke, der mit einer Arbeit über Mill und Friedrich August von Hayek promovierte, zeichnet ein anschauliches Bild dieses wohl einflußreichsten Denkers der viktorianischen Zeit, der für eine liberale Demokratie eintrat und die individuellen Freiheitsrechte gegenüber Gesellschaft und Staat verteidigte. Daß der Autor journalistisch ausgebildet und als Redakteur tätig ist, kommt dem Buch sehr zugute, es ist prägnant formuliert, klar gegliedert und auch in den theoretischen Passagen gut lesbar. Die beigefügte ausführliche Zeittafel erlaubt einen kurzen Überblick über Mills Leben, die umfangreiche Bibliographie lädt zum Weiterstudium ein. (2) (Gerhard König-Kurowski)

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) was a great liberal thinker of the nineteenth century, a noted philosopher, political theorist, and Member of Parliament. Mill was given a disciplined upbringing, his father deliberately shielding him from other children with the express aim of creating a philosophical genius to carry the mantle of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham and in which Mill went on to develop his own conception

Sharing insights from teaching John Stuart Mill for many years, the eminent philosopher Philip Kitcher makes a cogent case for why we should read this nineteenth-century thinker now. He reflects on Mill's ideas in the context of contemporary ethical, social, and political issues.

This work provides an interpretation of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859)and elucidates the fundamental principles of Mill's concept of liberty. For Mill, the right to form one's own convictions and live according to them should only be infringed upon for one reason, namely 'to prevent harm to others'. Michael Schefczyk, Leuphana University ofLüneburg, Germany; Thomas Schramme, University ofHamburg, Germany.