On Liberty

British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806–73) is the author of several essays, including Utilitarianism (1863) – a defence of Jeremy Bentham's principle applied to the field of ethics – and The Subjection of Women (1869), which advocates legal equality between the sexes. This work, arguably his most famous contribution to political philosophy and theory, was first published in 1859, and remains a major influence upon contemporary liberal political thought. In it, Mill argues ...