基本信息出版社：Bantam Classics
页码：240 页
出版日期：1993年01月
ISBN：0553214144
条形码：9780553214147
装帧：简装
丛书名：Bantam Classics
外文书名：论自由与功利主义
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Together, these two essays mark the philosophic cornerstone of democratic morality and represent a thought-provoking search for the true balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state.  Thoroughly schooled in the principles of the utilitarian movement founded by Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill nevertheless brings his own unique intellectual energy to issues such individual freedom, equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. On Liberty is Mill's famous examination of the nature of individuality and its crucial role in any social system that expected to remain creative and vital.  Utilitarian brilliantly expounds a pragmatic ethic based on one controversial proposition:  actions are right only if they promote the common good and wrong if they do not.  While much of Mill's thinking was eventually adopted by socialists, it is in today's democratic societies--with their troubling issues of crime, freedom of speech, and the boundaries of personal liberty--that his work resounds most powerfully.
作者简介 Sir Isaiah Berlin, formerly Warden of Wolfson College, Oxford, is author of a biography of Karl Marx and distinguished volumes of essays on philosophy and politics, the most recent of which is The Crooked Timber of Humanity.
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