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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... example of this is the as- sumption that Mill used the category “other-regarding,” in spite of the fact (as pointed out by Richard Wollheim) that Mill never used this phrase.1 One could compile a long bibliography of books and articles ...
... example of what he called “reigning opinions.” This difficulty is all the greater because Mill has become, ironically, in light of his opinions about religion, something of a sacred figure—“the saint of rationalism,” Glad- stone called ...
... example may be useful already here. In 1833, Mill wrote: “Whoever ... wishes to produce much immediate effect upon the English public, must . . . take pains to conceal that [his idea] is connected with any ulterior views. If his readers ...
... example, concludes that, “according to the doctrine of On Liberty encroachments [on individuality] constitute an improper interference with 'self-regarding' conduct: the individual is being held accountable for actions that cause no ...
... example in which this statement is ignored, Marshall Cohen, in an introduction to a widely used edition of Mill's writings, asserts that it is “Mill's principle that self-regarding actions are inviolable” and that for Mill “the only ...