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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... feeling.” (220) Having identified the threat to individual liberty, Mill went on to estab- lish a barrier to protect it. In the most famous passage in the book he proclaimed “one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely ...
... feelings of the present race of mankind.” “Vindication of the French Revolution of February 1848,” CW, 20, 350. See also, Diary, 26 March [1854], CW, 27, 664: “If children are the result [of sexual relations], then indeed commences a ...
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