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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... ideas had been assimilated - though it was only one side of Mill , the social egalitarian side , of which that could be ... idea that logic and mathematics are ' analytic ' to be " an important advance in the development of empiricism ...
... ideas had been assimilated - though it was only one side of Mill , the social egalitarian side , of which that could be ... idea that logic and mathematics are ' analytic ' to be " an important advance in the development of empiricism ...
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John Skorupski. as that played in Hume's epistemology by the distinction between relations of ideas and matters of fact ... idea of the ' evidence ' for them seems to consist of evidence that they are primitively normative . But this is ...
John Skorupski. as that played in Hume's epistemology by the distinction between relations of ideas and matters of fact ... idea of the ' evidence ' for them seems to consist of evidence that they are primitively normative . But this is ...
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... idea that liberalism has these effects would certainly have surprised them . They would have distinguished a liberal ethos which they defended from a democratic ethos which they feared . Their thinking was shaped by those two ...
... idea that liberalism has these effects would certainly have surprised them . They would have distinguished a liberal ethos which they defended from a democratic ethos which they feared . Their thinking was shaped by those two ...
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... idea of right , appropriate feeling - the overcoming of immaturity , stuntedness , repression , as also of distorting limita- tions , delusions , enslaving emotional needs , and then beyond that , the development of insight . Here , in ...
... idea of right , appropriate feeling - the overcoming of immaturity , stuntedness , repression , as also of distorting limita- tions , delusions , enslaving emotional needs , and then beyond that , the development of insight . Here , in ...
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... idea , not as Conservatives , resisting it.15 Hence the essay On Liberty , with its defence of liberty of thought and discussion and its exposition of individuality as one of the elements of well - being . Nor were these the only ...
... idea , not as Conservatives , resisting it.15 Hence the essay On Liberty , with its defence of liberty of thought and discussion and its exposition of individuality as one of the elements of well - being . Nor were these the only ...
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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