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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... judgment, nor do they necessarily agree with my conclusions. I especially wish to thank Mrs. Ruth Muessig for once again mediating between me and the word processor and for displaying superhuman pa- tience and tolerance in face of what ...
... judgments as censorious and as attempts to direct social pressure against them, it is necessary to consider whether Mill's advocacy of dis- taste and contempt is an example of the kind of control mentioned in his conversation with Grote ...
... judgments, at least would not be subject to them very often. This impression is reenforced by much recent commentary. Rees, for example, interprets the harm principle as not being applicable to most of the wide range of conduct that ...
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