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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... suggest that Mill advocated both liberty and control is to go against the current of opinion that dominates Mill scholarship. There is a tradi- tion of interpretation—what Mill would have called “received opin- ion”—that emphasizes ...
... suggested, it is necessary to piece it together from many sources. This is partly because Mill's perspec- tive ... suggest this is inappropriate, especially in regard to the author of On Liberty, who urged openness, candor, and ...
... suggested by the conversation with Grote, that Mill advocated substantial controls as well as liberty, ever seriously considered. Instead, most all commentators have regarded Mill as wishing to expand the realm of individual freedom to ...
... suggested that Mill rejected negative liberty and, without using the phrase, moved toward or even adopted a ... suggest, however, that individual lib- erty would be very much diminished, nor do they suggest that Mill ap- proved social ...
... suggest that the individual would not be “amenable to society” (224) for much of his conduct. This impression is reenforced by. 19 Ten, Mill, 6. 20 Ibid., 29; see also 4, 41. 21 A few have not ignored Mill's view on distaste and contempt ...