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John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control / Joseph Hamburger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691089881
  • 9781400823246
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01
LOC classification:
  • JC223.M66 H363 1999
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. LIBERTY AND CONTROL -- Chapter Two. CULTURAL REFORM -- Chapter Three. MILL AND CHRISTIANITY -- Chapter Four. CANDOR OR CONCEALMENT -- Chapter Five. ARGUMENTS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY IN ON LIBERTY -- Chapter Six. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY -- Chapter Seven. INDIVIDUALITY AND MORAL REFORM -- Chapter Eight. HOW MUCH LIBERTY? -- Chapter Nine. MILL'S RHETORIC -- Epilogue -- INDEX
Summary: John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in On Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals. Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian. Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. LIBERTY AND CONTROL -- Chapter Two. CULTURAL REFORM -- Chapter Three. MILL AND CHRISTIANITY -- Chapter Four. CANDOR OR CONCEALMENT -- Chapter Five. ARGUMENTS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY IN ON LIBERTY -- Chapter Six. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY -- Chapter Seven. INDIVIDUALITY AND MORAL REFORM -- Chapter Eight. HOW MUCH LIBERTY? -- Chapter Nine. MILL'S RHETORIC -- Epilogue -- INDEX

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John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in On Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals. Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian. Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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