Mill - Donner, Wendy; Fumerton, Richard
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The issues that engaged John Stuart Mill might have been taken from today's headlines: liberty, education, democracy, the environment, economic growth, sexual equality. In this timely volume, two leading scholars, Wendy Donner and Richard Fumerton, examine Mill's primary philosophical writings to get to the very heart of his ideas and his legacy. The volume begins with an overview of Mill's life, work, and reputation, examining the historical context of the nineteenth century that shaped his thinking and the relevance of his philosophy to contemporary readers. In Part I, Wendy Donner explores…mehr

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The issues that engaged John Stuart Mill might have been taken from today's headlines: liberty, education, democracy, the environment, economic growth, sexual equality. In this timely volume, two leading scholars, Wendy Donner and Richard Fumerton, examine Mill's primary philosophical writings to get to the very heart of his ideas and his legacy. The volume begins with an overview of Mill's life, work, and reputation, examining the historical context of the nineteenth century that shaped his thinking and the relevance of his philosophy to contemporary readers. In Part I, Wendy Donner explores the main components of Mill's writings in ethics and political philosophy - from On Liberty to Utilitarianism and The Subjection of Women. Central to his ethical views is the development of utilitarianism, and the opening chapters look at the structure of Mill's moral philosophy, featuring the Art of Life. Subsequent chapters focus on the nature and ramifications of Mill's liberty principle, his views on education, liberalism and democracy, sexuality and the subjection of women, and finally his incipient environmentalism. In Part II, Richard Fumerton discusses Mill's work in logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, focusing on an accessible account of those views Mill himself was most concerned to defend. This latest volume in Blackwell's Great Minds series is a lucid and accessible guide for students, researchers, teachers, and general readers, aiming throughout to reveal the fundamental elements underpinning the intricate weave of Mill's thought.
Autorenporträt
Wendy Donner is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University in Canada. She is a leading Mill scholar and the author of The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy. Richard Fumerton is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. A leading epistemologist, he is the author of numerous books, including Metaepistemology and Skepticism, Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth, Reason and Morality, and Epistemology.
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"An outstanding introduction to Mill, at once accessible andengaging as well as scholarly and full of philosophicalinterest." -Roger Crisp, University ofOxford

"This is the most important book on Mill in the past ten years. Iwas overwhelmed by the depth of analysis and comprehensiveness oftreatment." -Henry West, Macalester College