John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the most important of Britain's nineteenth-century philosophers His writings & activities were many & varied The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span from 1859 to 1869 On Liberty (1859) Considerations on Representative Government (1861) Utilitarianism (1863) & The Subjection of Women (1869) are four of his most famous works; they are central pillars on which Mill's high reputation rests Also included for the light they shed on Mill & his times are two of his lesser-known works
- The Contest in America' (1862) written in the context of the American Civil War; & his erudite but accessible Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews (1867) Mill contributed to several contemporary debates including ones about where to draw the proper boundaries between the liberty of the individual' on one hand & the security of the state' on the other Living as we do in a world where those boundaries continue to be tested & contested Mill's timeless writings are of no less value to us today than they were to those who read them when they were first published
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A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age the political & social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform with those of the majority Written in the same period as On Liberty shortly after the death of Mill's beloved wife & fellow-thinker Harriet The Subjection of Women stresses the importance of equality for the sexes Together the works provide a fascinating testimony to the hopes & anxieties of mid-Victorian England & offer a compelling consideration of what it truly means to be free ...

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces or can produce well developed human beings' Mill's four essays ' On Liberty' ' Utilitarianism' ' Considerations on Representative Government' & ' The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes
- whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty the basic principles of ethics the benefits & the costs of representative institutions & the central importance of gender equality in society These essays are central to the liberal tradition but their interpretation & how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious In their introduction Mark Philp & Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill's other works & argue that his conviction in the importance of the development of human character in its full diversity provides the core to his liberalism & to any defensible account of the value of liberalism to the modern world ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to themnow that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Rome's greatest orator had a career of intense activity in politics the law courts & the administration mostly in Rome His fortunes however followed those of Rome & he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey Crassus & Caesar Cicero though a senior statesman struggled to maintain his independence & it was during these years that frustrated in public life he first started to put his excess energy stylistic brilliance & superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero's works written to his friends Atticus & Brutus with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business the experience of grief & the difficulties of old age ...

In the first century BC Marcus Tullius Cicero orator statesman & defender of republican values created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship religion death fate & scientific inquiry A pragmatist at heart Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal & ethical drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties the questions of free will & the justification of any creative endeavour This lively lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek editor of Classical Antiquity & the Classics & Contemporary Thought book series makes Cicero's influential ideas accessible to every reader ...

Hailed as a feast (Washington Post) & a modern-day bestiary (The New Yorker) Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural & conceptual history of monsters-how they have evolved over time what functions they have served for us & what shapes they are likely to take in the future Beginning at the time of Alexander the Great the monsters come fast & furious-Behemoth & Leviathan Gog & Magog Satan & his demons Grendel & Frankenstein circus freaks & headless children right up to the serial killers & terrorists of today & the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow Monsters embody our deepest anxieties & vulnerabilities Asma argues but they also symbolize the mysterious & incoherent territory beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises scientific notebooks & novels Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears & fascinations In doing so he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated externalized & defeated Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty ambiguity & insecurity & in a world that is daily becoming less secure & more ambiguous he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters-and thereby avoid becoming one ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I Actors Doris Day Gordon Mac Rae Leon Ames Rosemary De Camp Jack Smith Directors William Jacobs Roy Del Ruth Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

' For if once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; & from robbing he comes next to drinking & Sabbath-breaking & from that to incivility & procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays ' On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head celebrating & coolly dissecting the art of murder & its perfections Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage & brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary & aesthetic criticism the essays had a remarkable impact on crime terror & detective fiction as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence The volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism ' On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' & his finest tale of terror ' The Avenger' a disturbing exploration of violence vigilantism & religious persecution ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

' People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill & be killed
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