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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... Individuality and Moral Reform CHAPTER EIGHT How Much Liberty? CHAPTER NINE Mill's Rhetoric EPILOGUE INDEX ix xi xix 3 18 42 55 86 108 149 166 203 225 235 EDITOR'S NOTE in the afternoon of Thursday, August 21, 1997, CONTENTS.
... individuality as an ideal character. All this is commonplace, and it would seem to be absurd to challenge it. Yet it is my purpose to do just that. While Mill did value liberty and individuality, there is evidence—a great deal of it, I ...
... individuality was. versus Paternalism,” Ethics 90 (1979-80): 476, 478, and passim. Wollheim imaginatively extends Mill's argument “in the general direction in which he was facing.” He offers a “line of argument that I have attributed to ...
Joseph Hamburger. kinds of self-expression, his claim on behalf of individuality was anything but absolute. Indeed, Mill's regime was so censorious, and the range of conduct that was discouraged and forbidden was so great, it must be ...
... ?” (Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1991), reprinted in Adven- tures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain, ed. William Roger Louis (London: Tauris, 1995); and “Individuality and Moral.