John Stuart Mill on Liberty and ControlPrinceton University Press, 2001 M06 18 - 264 pages 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. |
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... Bentham, representing the eighteenth century, was blind. Mill's sympathy with the counter-Enlight- enment was also evident in his attraction to Comte's ideas, many of which he retained even after he criticized some of them and quarreled ...
... Bentham, and his use of the inspection principle, especially as it is internalized to provide self-restraint and self-control: John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991), 197–204. 11 John C ...
... Bentham: see “Bentham” (1838), CW, 10, 94, and “Nature” (1874), CW, 10, 15 This crucial passage will be discussed below in chapter 394. 7 LIBERTY AND CONTROL.
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