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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... essay, insofar as he revealed them; his other, mainly contemporary, writings, in which he addressed issues that also arise in the essay; and the intellectual and broadly social context of Mill's work, which in part he.
... essay for Mill's rationale for liberty, and they evalu- ate the soundness of his arguments for it. They isolate the text from its historical context and often from most of Mill's other writings, and ana- lyze it as if Mill wrote to ...
... Essays on J. S. Mill Presented to John M. Robson, ed. Michael Laine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991); “How Liberal Was John Stuart Mill?” (Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1991), reprinted in Adven- tures ...
... essay to point out what things society forbade that it ought not, and what things it left alone that it ought to control.”1This statement put as much emphasis on control as on liberty, which is just how Grote understood it, for he told ...
... Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), 139, 161. John Gray calls Mill “a true liberal,” a “paradigmatic liberal,” and “an unqualified liberal.” Mill on Liberty: A Defence (London: Routledge, 1983), 119. And for C. L. ...