- father, James Mill, was with Jeremy Bentham the founder of Utilitarianism
Autobiography
- gives an account of Mill's melancholia
On Liberty
- argues that in a democracy, the rights of individuals must be safeguarded against the "tyranny of the majority"
- "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is a sovereign"
"What is Poetry?"
- defines poetry as the expression of the self to the self, as opposed to "eloquence", which is the expression of the self to another
The Subjection of Women
- work that excoriates the mistreatment of women from a philosophical, moral and economic perspective
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