Why Read Mill Today?

Name: Why Read Mill Today?
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ISBN: 9780415377447

ISBN-10: 0415377447

ISBN-13: 9780415377447

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Skorupski

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John Stuart Mill is one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. But does he have anything to teach us today? His deep concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be outdated and inadequate to the cultural and religious complexities of twenty-first century life. In this succinct and shrewd book, John Skorupski argues that Mill is a profound and inspiring social and political thinker from whom we still have much to learn. He reflects on Mill's central arguments in his most famous works, including Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and traces their implications for democratic politics. With the use of topical and controversial examples, including privacy, religious…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/25/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 122
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.07" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Chronology of Mill's Life


Preface


Notes on the Text



Free Thought



Mill's life and work



Liberalism as free thought



Thinking from within



Religion



The Good for Human Beings



Happiness and self-development



The Greatest Happiness Principle



The liberal ideal



Qualities of happiness



Morality and justice



Liberty



Liberty and popular sovereignty



The Liberty Principle



Spontaneity, conflict, progress



Liberty of thought and discussion



Personal independence



Modernity



Interpreting the modern world



History and character



Marx and Mill on the good for human beings



Democracy



Reflection



Mill as a late-modern thinker



Culture and democracy



Equality



Mill and liberalism today



What works? What inspires?


Further Reading


Index