John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, a utilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of a thoroughgoing empiricist outlook. In doing so, he sought to combine the best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newly emerging currents of nineteenth-century Romantic and historical philosophy. His most important works include System of Logic (1843), On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861) and An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy (1865). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

L’edició de referència per l’obra de Mill és la següent:

• Mill, John Stuart, Collected works. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1978.

Aquesta monumental obra reuneix els escrits de Mill en els següents 32 volums, accessibles tots ells on-line:

1. Autobiography and Literary Essays
2. The Principles of Political Economy I
3. Principles of Political Economy Part II
4. Essays on Economics and Society Part I
5. Essays on Economics and Society Part II
6. Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire
7. A System of Logic Part I
8. A System of Logic Part II
9. William Hamilton’s Philosophy
10. Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society
11. Essays on Philosophy and the Classics
12. The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part I
13. The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part II
14. The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part I
15. The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part II
16. The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part III
17. The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part IV
18. Essays on Politics and Society Part I
19. Essays on Politics and Society Part 2
20. Essays on French History and Historians
21. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education
22. Newspaper Writings Part I
23. Newspaper Writings Part II
24. Newspaper Writings Part III
25. Newspaper Writings Part IV
26. Journals and Debating Speeches Part I
27. Journals and Debating Speeches Part II
28. Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I
29. Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II
30. Writings on India
31. Miscellaneous Writings
32. Additional Letters
33. Introductions to the Robson Edition of the Collected Works of J.S. Mill

En el curs l’interès està centrat en dos temes:

1. El concepte de llibertat.
2. La lògica de la ciència, en especial, els pressupòsits.

Per als quals són molt adients els següents textos:

• Mill, John Stuart, Sobre la libertad; pról. Isaiah Berlin ; tr. Pablo de Azcárate. Madrid : Alianza, c2007.
• John Stuart Mill : la lógica de las ciencias morales / introducción, J. Francisco Álvarez ; traducción, J. Francisco Álvarez, Adriana Kiczkowski. Madrid : CSIC, 2010.

I aquestes dues obres, una col·lectiva i una monografia, poden ser de gran utilitat per l’aprofundiment en els textos:

• Manuel Escamilla Castillo, (ed.). John Stuart Mill y las fronteras del liberalismo. Granada : Universidad de Granada, 2004.
• Álvarez Gálvez, Íñigo, Utilitarismo y derechos humanos : la propuesta de John Stuart Mill. Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2009.