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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... Freedom: Essays in Honor of Isaiah Berlin, ed. Alan Ryan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 268. 2 Fred R. Berger, Happiness, Justice, and Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Berkeley: University of ...
... freedom to its logical conclusion prevents.” G. W. Smith, “J. S. Mill on Freedom,” in Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy, ed. Z. Pelczynski and J. Gray (London: Athlone Press, 1984), 199. See also ibid. at 200, 201–2 and 209 ...
... freedom to the greatest possible extent and as reluctantly providing minimal constraints on each individual to prevent harm to others. The most prominent spokesman for this. 1 Alexander Bain, John Stuart Mill: A Criticism with Personal ...
... freedom.”5 Accompanying this general agreement, it is true, there are differences in interpretation, notably between those who regard Mill's position as incoherent—because he defended liberty as having intrinsic value while also ...
... freedom seems irresist- ibly to entail extensive intervention by society,” “J. S. Mill on Freedom,” in Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy, ed. Zbigniew Pelczynski and John Gray (New York: St. Martins, 1984), 210; see also ...