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Mill, J.S. (1991) Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, ed. J.M.
Robson, London: Routledge and Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. (The standard edition of Mill’s writings, in thirty-three volumes. The introductions are invariably worth reading. Volume and page numbers given below refer to this edition.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1838) Bentham, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 10, 75–115, 1991. (Mill’s radical assessment of Bentham, usually read in conjunction with the essay on Coleridge.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1840) Coleridge, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 10, 117–63, 1991. (These two essays most accessibly illustrate how Mill wove together Enlightenment and Romanticism.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1843) System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vols 7 and 8, 1991. (The nineteenth century’s most penetrating exposition of a naturalistic philosophy of logic and science, including social science. The pagination of volumes 7 and 8 is consecutive; volume 8 begins at page 639.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1848) Principles of Political Economy, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vols 2 and 3, 1991. (A synthesis of classical economics, this work also contains much interesting social philosophy.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1859) On Liberty, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 18, 213–310, 1991. (One of liberalism’s canonical texts.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1861a) Utilitarianism, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 10, 203–59, 1991. (A central text of moral philosophy – its extraordinary succinctness means that much in it remains to be fully charted and quarried.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1861b) Considerations on Representative Government, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 29, 371–577, 1991. (One-man report on the prospects of democracy.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1865a) An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 9, 1991. (Mill’s main treatment of metaphysical issues, including the nature of mind and matter, free will, logic and thought.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1865b) Auguste Comte and Positivism, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 10, 261–368, 1991. (An assessment, from Mill’s later years, of a philosopher who greatly influenced him in his youth.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1869) The Subjection of Women, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 21, 259–340, 1991. (Manifesto of nineteenth-century liberal feminism.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1873) Autobiography, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 1, 1–290, 1991. (Famous account of Mill’s early education, ‘mental crisis’, and subsequent intellectual and moral projects.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1874) Three Essays on Religion, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 10, 369–489, 1991. (Posthumously published articles, in which Mill argues that religious hope is legitimate, whereas religious belief is not.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1879) Chapters on Socialism, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vol. 5, 703–53, 1991. (Posthumously published assessment of socialism which complements the Principles of Political Economy and On Liberty.) |
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Mill, J.S. (1972) Later Letters, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, London: Routledge, vols 14–17, 1991. (Mill’s extensive correspondence after 1848, published in four volumes.) |