John Stuart Mill on liberty and control

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John Stuart Mill on liberty and control

Joseph Hamburger

(Princeton paperbacks)

Princeton University Press, 2001, c1999

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"... first paperback printing, 2001"--t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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. Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian. Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

目次

EDITOR'S NOTE ix PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix CHAPTER ONE Liberty and Control 3 CHAPTER TWO Cultural Reform 18 CHAPTER THREE Mill and Christianity 42 CHAPTER FOUR Candor or Concealment 55 CHAPTER FIVE Arguments about Christianity in On Liberty 86 CHAPTER SIX The Religion of Humanity 108 CHAPTER SEVEN Individuality and Moral Reform 149 CHAPTER EIGHT How Much Liberty? 166 CHAPTER NINE Mill's Rhetoric 203 EPILOGUE 225 INDEX 235

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