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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... (London: Routledge, 1991), 191. Similarly Waldron acknowledges that he is engaged in a “reconstruction” of On Liberty. J. Waldron, “Mill and the Value of Moral Distress,” Political Studies (1987): 421. Arneson acknowledges that the term ...
... notions difficult to locate in his writings, eg., liberty as independence and thus dignity. Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth, 1977), 263. 3 Autobiography, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill,
... (London: Athlone Press, 1984), 199. See also ibid. at 200, 201–2 and 209–11. Although he does not introduce the religion of humanity, Smith clearly sees an authoritarian and illiberal side of Mill. Ibid, 211; Utilitas 1 (5/1989): 113–34 ...
... London; and University of London. Early formulations of some of the argument of this book appeared in “Religion and On Liberty,” in A Cultivated Mind: Essays on J. S. Mill Presented to John M. Robson, ed. Michael Laine (Toronto ...
Joseph Hamburger. William Roger Louis (London: Tauris, 1995); and “Individuality and Moral Reform: The Rhetoric of Liberty ... (London: Routledge, 1998), vol. 2. JOHN STUART MILL ON LIBERTY AND CONTROL Chapter One LIBERTY xx ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.