Skorupski Why Read Mill Today?

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-18392-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten

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 His deep concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be outdated and inadequate to the cultural and religious complexities of twenty first century life.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 intolerance, and freedom of speech, he makes Mill's concerns our own at a time when what liberalism means, and why it matters, is once again in dispute.

He concludes that Mill's place in the pantheon of 'great thinkers' rests not only on his specific political and social doctrines, but above all on his steadfastly generous and liberal vision of human beings, their relations to one another, and what makes life worth living.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skorupski, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Free Thought 1. Mill’s Life and Work 2. Liberalism as Free Thought 3. Thinking from Within 4. Religion 2. The Good for Human Beings 1. Happiness and Self-Development 2. The Greatest Happiness Principle 3. The Liberal Ideal 4. Qualities of Happiness 5. Morality and Justice 3. Liberty 1. Liberty and Popular Sovereignty 2. The Liberty Principle 3. Spontaneity, Conflict, Progress 4. Liberty of Discussion 5. Personal Independence 4. Modernity 1. Interpreting the Modern World 2. History and Character 3. Marx and Mill on Socialism 4. Democracy 5. Reflection 1. Mill as a Late-Modern Thinker 2. Culture and Democracy 3. Equality 4. Mill and Liberalism Today 5. What Works? What Inspires? Chronology Suggestions for Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

John Skorupski is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of John Stuart Mill (Routledge 1989), English Language Philosophy 1750-1945 (OUP 1993), Ethical Explorations (OUP 1999) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Mill (1995).