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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... Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 63, 296, passim. Recog- nizing that “ 'autonomy' is not a term [Mill] employs himself,” Gray candidly acknowledges that he uses “terms and ...
... Political Philosophy, ed. Z. Pelczynski and J. Gray (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 ...
... political to moral reform, from changing institutions to trans- forming character. This shift provided the context ... politics, society, morals, and liberty, occupy the next four chapters. His program for de-Christian- izing Western ...
... Political Theory Workshop at Yale University and by participants in a colloquium on Mill's On Liberty held at Aspen in 1989 and sponsored by Liberty Fund. Of course, none of these persons is responsible for any errors of fact or ...
... Political Science Reviewer XXIV (1995), reprinted in J. S. Mill's Social and Political Philosophy: Critical Texts, ed. G. W. Smith (London: Routledge, 1998), vol. 2. JOHN STUART MILL ON LIBERTY AND CONTROL Chapter One LIBERTY xx ...