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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... questions that might arise from examination of all the arguments he actually puts forward. The consensus about Mill's advocacy of liberty is not confined to the scholarly literature, for his views have become part of our intellectual ...
... questions about its con- ception of individual liberty in relation to law, custom, mores, opinions, and religious belief, that is, to ways some liberty may be reduced in order to accommodate these other aspects of social life. These ...
... question of the status of On Liberty as a paradigmatically liberal document is perhaps due ... for reconsideration,” “Enlightenment Psychology and Individuality: The Roots of J. S. Mill's Conception of the Self,” Enlightenment and ...
... question raised here is whether in the book Mill also establishes grounds for control and re- straint—not modest restraints occasioned by the application of the harm principle, which all commentators recognize—but more considerable re ...
... question about the child's liberty did not arise, for his doctrine of liberty applied to those in the maturity of their faculties (224). Thus it was not an interference with liberty to forcibly place prostitutes who were still minors in ...