In Mill's autobiography, the reader not only gets the real story behind the mind of a prodigy, but also an understanding of his emotions. After a strict upbringing, the insurmountable pressures Mill faces leads to a mental breakdown. However, the author then goes on not only to understand his own beliefs and feelings, but also to develop new radical ideas.

British economist and ethical theorist, John Stuart Mill (1806—73), recounts his rigorous tutelage under a domineering father, his mental health crisis at age twenty, and his struggle to regain joy amid self-reflection.

Posthumously published in 1874, these essays-"Nature," "Utility of Religion," and "Theism"-are highly critical of traditional religion, rejecting the belief in an omnipotent, benevolent God. Often undervalued, these essays are some of Mill's most brilliant works.

John Stuart Mill (1806—73) was the most influential English philosopher of the nineteenth century. His vast intellectual output covered a range of subjects - traditional philosophy and logic, economics, political science - and included this work, a founding document in the area now known as social science. In The Logic of the Moral Sciences, Mill applied his considerable talents to examining how the study of human behavior, society, and history...

"The two books here reprinted are milestones marking the advance of a great social movement, from a time when it was viewed with the contemptuous disregard or facetious notice reserved for that which is too eccentric even to arouse indignation as immoral, through a period when a few people of more intellectual than practical influence regarded its demands as politically feasible, to its present-day triumph. This triumph has, in turn, marked the beginning...

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radial 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...

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary Chapters on Socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of lasting concern: the desirability of sustained growth of national wealth and population, the merits of capitalism versus socialism, and the suitable scope of government intervention in the competitive market economy.