John Stuart Mill - Thought and Influence (eBook, ePUB)

The Saint of Rationalism
Redaktion: Varouxakis, Georgios; Kelly, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines an assessment of the philosophical legacy of Mill's arguments with an assessment of Mill's complex and fecund version of liberalism and his account of the relationship between character and ethical and political commitment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136998584
• Artikelnr.: 42977991

Autorenporträt

Georgios Varouxakis is Reader in History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London. He specialises in the history of British nineteenth-century political thought and in international political thought. He is the author of Mill on Nationality (2002) and Victorian Political Thought on France and the French (2002) and the co-editor of Utilitarianism and Empire (2005). Paul Kelly is Professor of Political Theory and Head of Department. His interests are in British political thought and contemporary political philosophy. He is author of Locke's Second Treatise of Government, London 2007 and edited of Political Thinkers, second edition, Oxford, 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

1. John Stuart Mill's Thought and Legacy: A Timely Reappraisal 2. The
Primacy of the Political and the Problem of Cultural Authority in an Age of
Transition 3. Competing Theories of Character Formation: James vs. John
Stuart Mill 4. Wild Natural Beauty and the Religion of Humanity: Mill's
'Green' Credentials 5. Parallel Lives in Logic: the Benthams and the Mills
6. John Stuart Mill and Virtue Ethics 7. Justice as Higher Pleasure 8.
Mill's Feminism: Liberal, Radical, and Queer 9. Liberalism as Free Thought
10. Mill's Relevance Today: A Personal View