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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Joseph Hamburger. JOHN STUART MILL ON LIBERTY AND CONTROL JOSEPH HAMBURGER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright © 1999 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton Title.
... John Stuart Mill on liberty and control / Joseph Hamburger. p. cm. Includes index. eISBN 1-4008-0333-0 1. Mill, John Stuart, 1806–1873 On liberty. 2. Liberty. I. Title. JC223.M75H35 1999 323.44—dc21 99-13520 CIP This book has been ...
... Mill did value liberty and individuality, there is evidence—a great deal of it, I believe—that he also advocated placing quite a few limitations on liberty and many encroachments on individuality. It will be shown that, far from being ...
... Mill's only purpose in writing it was to establish a princi- ple of liberty that specifies the many circumstances in ... John Stuart Mill and Isaiah Berlin: The Ends of Life and the Prelim- inaries of Morality,” in The Idea of Freedom ...