The Cambridge Companion to MillJohn Skorupski Cambridge University Press, 1998 M01 13 - 591 pages John Stuart Mill was one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His impact on modern culture and thought has been immense, and his continuing importance for contemporary philosophy and social thought is widely recognized. This companion furnishes the reader with a systematic and up-to-date account of the many facets of Mill's thought and influence. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Mill currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Mill. |
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... cause to which most people attribute it - the public exhibition of his radicalism : but partly to the natural termination of his philosophical reign - which was of the kind to be naturally early and brief .... I should say that from ...
... cause to which most people attribute it - the public exhibition of his radicalism : but partly to the natural termination of his philosophical reign - which was of the kind to be naturally early and brief .... I should say that from ...
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... causes was simply the revolt of generations . Consider this , from a review of Mill's posthumously published Three Essays on Religion : we are conscious of increased admiration for the fine intellectual faculty , the beautiful moral ...
... causes was simply the revolt of generations . Consider this , from a review of Mill's posthumously published Three Essays on Religion : we are conscious of increased admiration for the fine intellectual faculty , the beautiful moral ...
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... causes of sensation " rather than about " permanent possi- bilities of sensation " . For when those beliefs are understood in the realist as against the phenomenalist way then Mill's explanation implies , he thinks , that we cannot know ...
... causes of sensation " rather than about " permanent possi- bilities of sensation " . For when those beliefs are understood in the realist as against the phenomenalist way then Mill's explanation implies , he thinks , that we cannot know ...
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... cause is the decline and eventual dramatic collapse of what East Europeans called ' actually existing socialism ' . Those particular experiments in construction were not products of social construc- tivism alone ; they drew on aspects ...
... cause is the decline and eventual dramatic collapse of what East Europeans called ' actually existing socialism ' . Those particular experiments in construction were not products of social construc- tivism alone ; they drew on aspects ...
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... cause ; but their remarkable diversity of character and culture " ( ' On Liberty ' , CW XVIII : 274 ) . These criticisms of Comte's utopianism blended with another . Comte committed the error which is often , but falsely , Introduction 19.
... cause ; but their remarkable diversity of character and culture " ( ' On Liberty ' , CW XVIII : 274 ) . These criticisms of Comte's utopianism blended with another . Comte committed the error which is often , but falsely , Introduction 19.
Contents
Mill on language and logic | 35 |
Mill mathematics and the naturalist tradition | 57 |
Mill on induction and scientific method | 112 |
Mill phenomenalism and the self | 139 |
Mill on religion | 176 |
Mill on psychology and the moral sciences | 203 |
Mills utilitarianism | 255 |
Mills political economy Ricardian science and liberal utilitarian art | 293 |
Democracy socialism and the working classes | 372 |
The subjection of women | 396 |
Mill and the Classical world | 423 |
The reception and early reputation of Mills political thought | 464 |
Mill in a liberal landscape | 497 |
Guide to further reading | 541 |
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