Liberty, equality, fraternity, and three brief essays

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Liberty, equality, fraternity, and three brief essays

James Fitzjames Stephen ; with a new foreword by Richard A. Posner and notes by R.J. White

University of Chicago Press, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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With great energy and clarity, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), author of History of the Criminal Law of England, and judge of the High Court from 1879-91, challenges John Stuart Mill's On Liberty and On Utilitarianism, arguing that Mill's view of humanity is sentimental and utopian. "His writing is strong meat--full of the threat of hellfrire, the virtue of government by the lash and a fervent belief that the state cannot remain neutral but has a duty to espouse a moral code."--Roderick Munday, Cambridge Law Journal

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