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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... less than full and expansive liberty. As a consequence, far from being compatible with modern liberal thought, On Liberty should be regarded as being implicitly critical of it. My purpose is to elucidate Mill's perspective—in On Liberty ...
... less liberty than revisionists have sought to sustain. 10 These will be laid out in chapter nine. 11 Mill's acknowledgments will be examined later, but an early example may be useful already here. In 1833, Mill wrote: “Whoever ...
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